<i>Anyone</i> (eBook)

The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

Nigel Rapport (Autor)

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2012
238 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-0-85745-523-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.

Autor

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, where he directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held a Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements

INTRODUCTION: INTENT AND STRUCTURE


A cosmopolitan project

‘Everyman’ and ‘Anyone’

Singular values

Cosmopolitanism and liberalis

Category-thinking and politeness

Dead dogma?

Envoi


PART 1. COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOPOLIS: DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES

1.1 A History and Overview


Founding moments

Contemporary Voices and Issues

Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of morality

Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of normative programme

Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of social condition

Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of attitude or orientation

The cosmopolitan is a specific kind of actor

Anthropological Critiques

Epistemological critique of cosmopolitanism

Real-political critique of cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanisms


1.2 A Cosmopolitan Project for Anthropology


What cosmopolitanism is and what it is not

Multiculturalism, Utilitarianism, Globalization, Pluralism

Human universalism and cultural diversity

Voluntarism and community belonging

The fluidity of experience

Cosmopolitan hope

Human Rights, World Cities, Worldwide Issues

Global governance

Cosmopolitan politesse


PART II: ‘MY NAME IS RICKEY HIRSCH’: A LIFE IN SIX ACTS, WITH MARGINALIA AND A CODA

Act I
Notes in the Margin I
Act II
Notes in the Margin II
Act III
Notes in the Margin III
Act IV
Notes in the Margin IV
Act V
Act VI
Coda

PART III: ANYONE IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: EVIDENCING AND ENGAGING

3.1 Personal Truth, Subjectivity as Truth


Introduction

A Kierkegaardian excursus

Personal truth as political and physiological

Personal truth as physical environment

Nietzsche’s ‘night-time’ (Umnachtung)

Conclusion: The pragmatism of personal truth


3.2 Generality, Distortion and Gratuitousness


Introduction

Simmel’s distortions

Beyond Simmel

Generality and the route to human science

Modelling the one and the whole

Bodily characteristics as individual and general

Generality and the route to liberal society

Conclusion: Distortion revisited


3.3 Public and Private: Civility as Politesse


Introduction: ‘Politesse’

Politesse as naturally occurring

Anthropology and interactional routine

Anthropology and communication

Politesse as political policy

Anthropology and global society

Politesse as ethos of global becoming

Politesse as lived practice

Case-studies of complex society

Invitation to politesse

Conclusion: Good manners


AFTERWORD: JEWISH COSMOPOLITANISM


Jew, Israeli, Cosmopolitan


Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Methodology in Anthropology • Theory &amp • Theory & Methodology in Anthropology • Theory and Methodology
• ISBN-10: 0-85745-523-0 / 0857455230
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-523-9 / 9780857455239