Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415169677)

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.

Author: Nigel Rapport
ISBN-10: 0415169674
ISBN-13: 9780415169677
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 10/30/1997
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.47w x 0.70d