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

Nigel Rapport siente que ha venido al lugar correcto para continuar su investigación sobre el cosmopolitismo. Rapport se ha unido al Departamento de Sociología y Antropología de Concordia de la Universidad de St. Andrews en Escocia. Es un cambio de una pequeña ciudad medieval que él describe como "Cambridge junto al mar" a una gran ciudad con un campus urbano. El antropólogo británico ha sido nombrado Cátedra de Investigación de Canadá, Nivel 1, en Globalización, Ciudadanía y Justicia Social. También es el director fundador del Concordia Center for Cosmopolitan Studies, lanzando programas de investigación y talleres que promueven una apreciación de los derechos, las capacidades y la experiencia del individuo global.

An Anthropology of the Enlightenment: Moral Social Relations Then and Today pdf por Nigel Rapport

How can we rethink the terms of Enlightenment anthropology in a manner and an idiom appropriate to the contemporary era? The essays collated here argue for anthropology's use in acknowledging, exploring and interpreting divergence and ideological conflict over human meaning. The 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 therefore 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. With an afterword from Marilyn Strathern, this volume makes a strong addition to the ASA conference proceedings.