Nigel Rapport

I Am Dynamite (eBook, ePUB)

An Alternative Anthropology of Power

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"I Am Dynamite" ignites an alternative theory of the self and will, wrapped up in a combustible assault upon scholarly convention. Asking why the real effort of constructing and living within an identity is so often overlooked, it examines the subjective experience of existing in the world, with the power to define and transform oneself. Considering the trials and triumphs of five very different modern subjects--Primo Levi, Ben Glaser, Stanley Spencer, Rachel Silberstein and Friedrich Nietzsche--Nigel Rapport asks: can consciousness of being a self in the world enable control over one's life within it? Calling for a renewed appreciation of the extraordinary within us all, this richly inventive work seeks to restore knowledge to its essential practical and moral aims--aiding and informing the lives we actually live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134575718
• Artikelnr.: 38249251

Autorenporträt

Nigel Rapport holds the Chair in Anthropological and Philosophical Studies in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. His books include Key Concepts in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Routledge, 2000), British Subjects (2002) and Transcendent Individual (Routledge, 1997). He has received awards from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: PROPOSITIONS individuality: Consciousness, World-view, Narrative, Life-Project and Interaction, Individuality and Ironic Displacement, Displacement and '"In Order To" Motives', "In Order To" Motives and Prior Conditions, The Conditions of Political Power and Existential Power PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS Friedrich Nietzsche and the Wilfulness of Power-Quanta, Ben Glaser and the Composing of 'Cosmos 1' and '2', Rachel Silberstein and the Relentless Road to Personal Completion, Stanley Spencer and the Visionary Metaphysic of Love PART III: DISCUSSIONS The Power of Any Body-in-its-Environment, Total Institutions and the Violence of Society: The Death of Power?

Rezensionen

'An important and contentious book... It could stimulate a cult!' - Anthony Cohen, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

'[Rapport's] use of ethnographic biographies provides an exciting model for future anthropological investigations and helps us to retain understanding and sympathy for people and the reality of their lived worlds for them.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology

'An important and contentious book... It could stimulate a cult!' - Anthony Cohen, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh

'[Rapport's] use of ethnographic biographies provides an exciting model for future anthropological investigations and helps us to retain understanding and sympathy for people and the reality of their lived worlds for them.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology