Transcendent Individual : Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology
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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 culture in favour of individuality.
Rapport draws widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials bringing into the debate a range of voices, among them Nietzsche, Wilde, George Steiner, Richard Rorty, John Berger and Anthony Cohen. In doing so he approaches individuality in terms of a range of issues: biological integrity, consciousness, agency, democracy, discourse, globalism, knowledge and play.
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- ISBN-13: 9780415169677
- ISBN-10: 0415169674
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: October 1997
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.47 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.7 pounds
- Page Count: 232
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