Recovering the Human Subject: Freedom, Creativity and Decision (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108424967)

This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling individual subjects', that provides a focus for the debate, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.

Author: James Laidlaw
ISBN-10: 1108424961
ISBN-13: 9781108424967
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2018
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.85w x 0.60d