Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality - Brossura

Amit, Vered; Rapport, Nigel

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ISBN 10: 0745329039 ISBN 13: 9780745329031

Casa editrice: Pluto Press, 2012

Riassunto

In this follow up to their widely read earlier volume, The Trouble with Community, Vered Amit and Nigel Rapport ask: 'Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, in the dislocating context of globalization, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole?'

This volume explores the variable nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organizational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilizing and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects. Here is an examination of the tensions and interactions between everyday forms of fluid fellowship, culturally normative claims to identity, and opportunities for realizing a universal humanity.

The book offers a new perspective on human commonality through a dialogue between two eminent anthropologists who come from distinct, but complementary positions.

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Recensione

In the innovative form of the learned dialogue, the authors address some of the most urgent questions in contemporary social theory, concerning cosmopolitanism and the pragmatics of social community. Thoughtfully and beautifully written in two distinctive styles, this is a highly original book crossing genres and disciplines in its quest for insight into the human condition. (Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He is the author of numerous books, including Ethnicity and Nationalism, A History of Anthropology, and Small Places, Large Issues, available from Pluto Press.)

Amit and Rapport are 'good to think with' as they debate contemporary notions of and for human sociality. They unsettle in very productive ways anthropological understandings of cosmopolitanism and community by bringing Kant and Turner into dialogue with each other. (Deborah Reed-Danahay, Professor of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo, SUNY)

This volume is an important contribution for our discipline and beyond. (Raúl Acosta, University of Deusto)

L'autore

Vered Amit is Professor of Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal. Together with Nigel Rapport, she is the author of The Trouble with Community: Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity (Pluto, 2002) and editor of Claiming Individuality (2006). Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews. He is author of a number of books including Transcendent Individual (Routledge, 1997).

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• Editore: Pluto Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0745329039
• ISBN 13: 9780745329031
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240