Anyone: The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

By Nigel Rapport

Book Overview

A critique of contemporary social-scientific writings on cosmopolitanism: an argument for cosmopolitanism as a version of identity, belonging and justice that is distinct from current nostra concerning multiculturalism, and that concerns our global humanity and our global individuality. An argument and exemplification concerning how a human science must deal with morality alongside social and psychological facts: the moral cannot and should not be kept distinct from the empirical in accounts of human life. A conceptualization of global humanity as being represented in unique individuals, as 'Anyone'. An argument for 'cosmopolitan politesse' as a kind of civil-interactional scheme, a set of manners, that might recognize and accommodate the individual actor anywhere on the globe and at any time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782385266
• ISBN13: 9781782385264
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"