Transcendent Individual: Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

By Nigel Rapport

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415169666
• ISBN13: 9780415169660
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"