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Human Nature as Capacity

Transcending Discourse and Classification

Herausgeber: Rapport, Nigel

Beschreibung

Asks: What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Argues that it is again appropriate to bring "the human" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor Suggests to approach "human nature" in terms of species-wide capacities: action and imagination, and liabilities for suffering and cruelty. Demonstrates benefits of the anthropological method

Autor

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University, Montreal, and he has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Recent publications include 'I am Dynamite': An Alternative Anthropology of Power (Routledge, 2003) and Of Orderlies and Men: Hospital Porters Achieving Wellness at Work (Carolina Academic Press, 2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780857458100
• ISBN-10: 0857458108
• Artikelnr.: 36832873