“The Themitical in the Ethical”
James Faubion
What is Ethics? And Who Cares?: The Series
March 27, 2009

James Faubion (Rice University) explored the relation between the ethical value and the ethical order of everyday life as part of the What is Ethics series hosted by the Institute.

With resort to Max Weber, Niklas Luhmann, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, Faubion explored the relation between ethical value and the ethical order of everyday life and argued that both are a constitutive dimension of any communicative collectivity capable of sustaining itself in the face of a world always full of surprises.

James Faubion is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, an author of studies on reformism in contemporary Greece and millenarianism in the United States, and the editor of two volumes of Essential Works of Michel Foucault. Faubion is currently completing What Becomes a Subject: An Anthropology of Ethics. His further interests include kinship and the ecology of social and cultural thought.

A paper of Faubion’s discussion is available: Download pdf.