Human Nature As Capacity: Transcending Discourse and Classification - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857458108 ISBN 13 : 9780857458100

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2013

Synopsis

What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book 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, not on the basis of the substance of a human nature - "To be human is to act like this and react like this, to feel this and want this" - but in terms of species-wide capacities: capabilities for action and imagination, liabilities for suffering and cruelty. The contributors approach "the human" with an awareness of these complexities and particularities, rendering this volume unique in its ability to build on anthropology's ethnographic expertise.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University, Montreal, and he has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recent publications include 'I am Dynamite': An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge, 2003) and Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857458108
• ISBN 13: 9780857458100
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Rapport Nigel
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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