Living with Concepts: Anthropology in the Grip of Reality

In this anthology, philosophers and anthropologists examine a concept too often taken for granted: that of the concept itself.

Concepts are often thought of as mere tools of analysis, or as straightforwardly equivalent to signs or symbols. But the contributors in this volume challenge these conventional frameworks, turning instead to the ways concepts are intrinsically embedded in our forms of life and how they constitute the very substrate of our conscious existence.

Attending to our ordinar...