Human Nature as Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification

By Nigel Rapport

Book Overview

Asks: What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor Suggests to approach "human nature" in terms of species-wide capacities: action and imagination, and liabilities for suffering and cruelty. Demonstrates benefits of the anthropological method

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857458108
• ISBN13: 9780857458100
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"