An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today

ISBN-13: 9781350086593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Nigel Rapport; Andrew Irving; Huon Wardle

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List of Contributors Preface: The 'Star' Consortium and the ASA Decennial Conference Introduction: Moral Social Relations as Methodology and Everyday Practice Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) and Huon Wardle (University of St. Andrews, UK) 1. After Sympathy, a Question Anne Line Dalsgård (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. His Father Came to Him in His Sleep: An Essay on Enlightenment, Mortalities and Immortalities in Iceland Arnar Anason (University of Aberdeen, UK) 3. On 'Bad Mind': Orienting Sentiments in Jamaican Street Life Huon Wardle (University of St Andrews, UK) 4. Westermarck, Moral Relativity and Ethical Behaviour David Shankland (University of Bristol, UK) 5. Saving Sympathy: Adam Smith, Morality, Law and Commerce Diane Austin-Broos (University of Sydney, Australia) 6. 'Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please'? Nigel Clark (Lancaster University, UK), Rupert Stasch (University of Cambridge, UK) and Jon Bialecki, (Lancaster University, UK) 7. Who Are We to Judge? Two Metalogues on Morality Ronald Stade (University of Malmo, Sweden) 8. 'We Are All Human': Cosmopolitanism as a Radically Political, Moral Project Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Durham University, UK) 9. Transference and Cosmopolitan Politesse: Coming to Terms with the Distorted, ‘Tragic’ Quality of Social Relations between Individual Human Beings Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews, UK) 10. Afterword: Becoming Enlightened About Relations Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge, UK) Index

O autorze

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.Huon Wardle is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK.