‹i›Anyone‹/i› : : The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology / / Nigel Rapport.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Rapport, Nigel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction INTENT AND STRUCTURE -- PART 1 What are the meanings of cosmopolitanism, past, present and future? -- COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOPOLIS: DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES -- 1.1 A HISTORY AND OVERVIEW -- 1.2 A COSMOPOLITAN PROJECT FOR ANTHROPOLOGY -- PART 2 -- ‘MY NAME IS RICKEY HIRSCH’: A LIFE IN SIX ACTS, WITH MARGINALIA AND A CODA -- Part 3: Anyone in Science and Society: Evidencing and Engaging -- ANYONE IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: EVIDENCING AND ENGAGING -- 3.1 PERSONAL TRUTH, SUBJECTIVITY AS TRUTH -- 3.2 GENERALITY, DISTORTION AND GRATUITOUSNESS -- 3.3 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE: CIVILITY AS POLITESSE -- AFTERWORD: JEWISH COSMOPOLITANISM -- References -- Index