Beyond the juxtaposition of nature and culture: Lawrence Krader, interdisciplinarity, and the concept of the human being

The essays contained in Beyond the Juxtaposition of Nature and Culture represent an attempt by scholars from Canada, Germany, and Mexico to come to grips with the innovative work of the American philosopher and anthropologist Lawrence Krader who has proposed nothing less than a new theory of nature, according to which there are at least three different orders-the material-biotic, the quantum, and the human-which differ from one another …