Books

LIVING WITH CONCEPT: ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE GRIP OF REALITY, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2021 (EDITED WITH MARCO MOTTA)

This collection brings together leading anthropologists and philosophers working in a wide range of contexts in order to rethink an oft taken for granted concept - the concept of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of our lives? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs to be deciphered, the twelve contributors to Living with Concepts instead looks at the ways in which concepts are already intrinsically embedded in our forms of life, and thus how they constitute the very substrate of our existence as humans who lead lives in language.