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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

    $36.89 USD

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  • The Trouble with Community

    Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity

    by Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings.The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $152.09 USD

  • 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

    $63.99 USD

  • Self-Alteration

    How People Change Themselves across Cultures

    by Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...
    Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Moment, Cosmopolitan Method

    Edited by Nigel Rapport, Huon Wardle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    In conversation, and in the company of a new generation of scholars working in the field, Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle re-explore the terrain and meaning of cosmopolitan studies now. This book offers a new survey and theorisation of cosmopolitan research, a burgeoning topic responding to increasingly complex patterns of human interaction in world society. It considers the question of cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science

    Edited by Huon Wardle, Nigel Rapport, Albert Piette ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method. Transdisciplinary in scope, it considers the nature of human subjectivity and how human experience ought to be studied, examining the connections that exist between the individual’s imagining of the world and their everyday practice within it.With attention to the question of whether humans are ultimately alone ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Migrants of Identity

    Perceptions of 'Home' in a World of Movement

    Edited by Andrew Dawson, Nigel Rapport ...
    Series series Ethnicity and Identity
    Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional conceptions of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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

    $54.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of the Enlightenment

    Moral Social Relations Then and Today

    Edited by Huon Wardle, Nigel Rapport ...
    In a time of intellectual uncertainty, the question of how we know what we do about human lives becomes ever more pressing. The essays collated in this volume argue that anthropology can be used to acknowledge, explore and interpret divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning. Using questions raised as part of the Enlightenment movement, this volume is structured around some of the key ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • 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

    $94.79 USD