Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

by Rapport, Nigel
ISBN: 9780415169677
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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.
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Rapport, Nigel
  • ISBN: 9780415169677
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.50 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 232
  • Publication Year: 1997
Language: English