An anthropology of the Enlightenment : moral social relations then and today / edited by Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rapport, Nigel, 1956- editor.

Wardle, Huon, editor.

Series:

A.S.A. monographs ; 53.

ASA monographs, 0066-9679 ; 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--History.

Anthropology.

History.

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Enlightenment.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

This volume is structured around some of the key themes that the Enlightenment fostered, including human nature, time, Earth and the cosmos, beauty, order, harmony and design, morals, and the query of whether wealthy nations make for healthy publics. It focuses in particular on how 'moral sentiment' offered a guiding idea in Enlightenment thought. The idea of 'moral sentiment' is central to the essays' grappling with the ethical anxieties of contemporary anthropology. The essays therfore trace historical connections and fissures, and focus in particular on Adam Smith's attempts toward an understanding of what would later be called 'modernity' - where the realism that allows us to understand individual experience appears at odds with the realism which takes on larger scale social processes of enculturation or globalization. -- Publisher

Contents:

After Sympathy, a Question / Anne Line Dalsgård

His Father Came to Him in His Sleep: An Essay on Enlightenment, Mortalities and Immortalities in Iceland / Arnar Árnason

On 'Bad Mind': Orienting Sentiment in Jamaican Street Life / Huon Wardle

Westermarck, Moral Relativity and Ethical Behaviour / David Shankland

Saving Sympathy: Adam Smith, Morality, Law and Commerce / Diane Austin-Broos

'Can We Have Our Nature/Culture Dichotomy Back, Please?' / Nigel Clark, Rupert Stasch, Jon Bialecki

Who Are We to Judge? Two Metalogues on Morality / Ronald Stade

'We Are All Human': Cosmopolitanism as a Radically Political, Moral Project / Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

Transference and Cosmopolitan Politesse: Coming to Terms with the Distorted, 'Tragic' Quality of Social Relations between Individual Human Beings / Nigel Rapport

Afterword: Becoming Enlightened about Relations / Marilyn Strathern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Anthropology of the enlightenment.

ISBN:

9781350086609

1350086606

9781350086593

1350086592

OCLC:

1078997568

Publisher Number:

99979521140