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Transcendent individual : towards a literary and liberal anthropology / Nigel Rapport.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rapport, Nigel, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Authorship.
- Individuality.
- Ethnology in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
- Summary:
- "Transcendent Individual" is an anthropological account of individual creativity and its conscious engagement in society. Drawing widely on ethnographic and theoretic material, and bringing into debate a range of voices--Nietzsche, Wilde and Forster, Bateson and Gerald Edelman, George Steiner, Richard Rorty and John Berger, Edmund Leach and Anthony Cohen--the book approaches individuality in terms of a range of issues: biological integrity, consciousness, agency, democracy, discourse, knowledge, consumerism, globalism and play.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [202]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415169666
- 0415169674
- OCLC:
- 36470219
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