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  • Exceptional Israel

    On the Moral Attentiveness of Zionism

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Explores how exceptional conditions surrounding the state of Israel—its suffering of existential insecurity—predisposes its citizenry to the virtue of moral attentiveness.Paying "moral attention" to the world has been exhorted philosophically by the likes of Emmanuel Levinas, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch. This entails attending to the true nature of being, to the individuality of life—its sublime ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality

    by Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects.Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport present ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality

    Ethical Engagement beyond Culture

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Love ‘discovers the reality’ of individual human beings, wrote Iris Murdoch; love ‘deifies’ the person, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. This book proposes love as a kind of civic virtue: that ‘loving recognition’ might function as a universal form of ethical engagement and inclusion. ‘Loving recognition’ is proposed as a civil practice that enshrines the individuality of human identity, overcoming the ... Read more

    $123.09 CAD

  • I Am Dynamite

    An Alternative Anthropology of Power

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite, the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, refugee and engineer Ben Glaser, ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Distortion and Love

    An Anthropological Reading of the Art and Life of Stanley Spencer

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    In this ground-breaking book, a theory of ’distortion’ - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain’s greatest twentieth-century painters and that art’s public reception. Devoted to his native village of Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and portraits with ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Transcendent Individual

    Essays Toward a Literary and Liberal Anthropology

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    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 ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:Material CultureEnvironmentHuman RightsHybridityAlterityCosmopolitanismEthnographyApplied AnthropologyGenderCyberneticsWith full cross-referencin... ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

  • ‘I am Here’, Abraham Said

    Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Series Book 47 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical work on ‘the Other’ offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the ‘secrecy’ of subjectivity – a fundamental facet of the human condition – demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through ‘inspiration’. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Anyone

    The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology

    by Nigel Rapport ...
    Series Book 24 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone – the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Anthropology’s Philosophy

    How Anthropology Makes Concepts its Own

    Edited by Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on anthropology's ambition for comprehensiveness and its interdisciplinary nature. It consists of concise essays, each around 2,500 words, in which contributors examine how concepts traditionally linked to philosophy or other disciplines are interpreted and applied within anthropology. Each contributor selects a personally inspiring concept and illustrates its relevance to ... Read more

    $192.19 CAD

  • British Subjects

    An Anthropology of Britain

    Edited by Nigel Rapport ...
    The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism and transnationalism are found reflected in the ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Composition of Anthropology

    How Anthropological Texts Are Written

    Edited by Morten Nielsen, Nigel Rapport ...
    How do anthropologists write their texts? What is the nature of creativity in the discipline of anthropology? This book follows anthropologists into spaces where words, ideas and arguments take shape and explores the steps in a creative process. In a unique examination of how texts come to be composed, the editors bring together a distinguished group of anthropologists who offer valuable insight ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD