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  • Exceptional Israel

    On the Moral Attentiveness of Zionism

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Explores how exceptional conditions surrounding the state of Israel—its suffering of existential insecurity—predisposes its citizenry to the virtue of moral attentiveness.Paying "moral attention" to the world has been exhorted philosophically by the likes of Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch. This entails attending to the true nature of being, to the individuality of life—its sublime ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality

    Ethical Engagement beyond Culture

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Love ‘discovers the reality’ of individual human beings, wrote Iris Murdoch; love ‘deifies’ the person, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book proposes love as a kind of civic virtue: that ‘loving recognition’ might function as a universal form of ethical engagement and inclusion. ‘Loving recognition’ is proposed as a civil practice that enshrines the individuality of human identity, overcoming the ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • ‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

    Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Series Libro 47 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • I Am Dynamite

    An Alternative Anthropology of Power

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Anyone

    The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Series Libro 24 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    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 ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Distortion and Love

    An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ’distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century painters and that art’s public reception. Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:Material CultureEnvironmentHuman RightsHybridityAlterityCosmopolitanismEthnographyApplied AnthropologyGenderCyberneticsWith full cross-referencin... ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Transcendent Individual

    Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

    de Nigel Rapport ...
    Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively 'write', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements over and against ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

    de Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects.Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Self-Alteration

    How People Change Themselves across Cultures

    de Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...
    Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Trouble with Community

    Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity

    de Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings.The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

    Edición de Nigel Rapport, Huon Wardle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now. This book offers a new survey and theorisation of cosmopolitan research, a burgeoning topic responding to increasingly complex patterns of human interaction in world society. It considers the question of cosmopolitan ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD