Transcendent Individual

Rapport, Nigel

ISBN 10: 0415169674 / ISBN 13: 9780415169677

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transcendent Individual
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415169674
• ISBN 13: 9780415169677
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nigel Rapport