List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: INTENT AND STRUCTURE
- A cosmopolitan project
- 'Everyman' and 'Anyone'
- Singular values
- Cosmopolitanism and liberalis
- Category-thinking and politeness
- Dead dogma?
- Envoi
PART 1. COSMOPOLITANISM AND COSMOPOLIS: DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES
1.1 A History and Overview
- Founding moments
- Contemporary Voices and Issues
- Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of morality
- Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of normative programme
- Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of social condition
- Cosmopolitanism is a specific kind of attitude or orientation
- The cosmopolitan is a specific kind of actor
- Anthropological Critiques
- Epistemological critique of cosmopolitanism
- Real-political critique of cosmopolitanism
- Cosmopolitanisms
1.2 A Cosmopolitan Project for Anthropology
- What cosmopolitanism is and what it is not
- Multiculturalism, Utilitarianism, Globalization, Pluralism
- Human universalism and cultural diversity
- Voluntarism and community belonging
- The fluidity of experience
- Cosmopolitan hope
- Human Rights, World Cities, Worldwide Issues
- Global governance
- Cosmopolitan politesse
PART II: 'MY NAME IS RICKEY HIRSCH': A LIFE IN SIX ACTS, WITH MARGINALIA AND A CODA
Act I
Notes in the Margin I
Act II
Notes in the Margin II
Act III
Notes in the Margin III
Act IV
Notes in the Margin IV
Act V
Act VI
Coda
PART III: ANYONE IN SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: EVIDENCING AND ENGAGING
3.1 Personal Truth, Subjectivity as Truth
- Introduction
- A Kierkegaardian excursus
- Personal truth as political and physiological
- Personal truth as physical environment
- Nietzsche's 'night-time' (Umnachtung)
- Conclusion: The pragmatism of personal truth
3.2 Generality, Distortion and Gratuitousness
- Introduction
- Simmel's distortions
- Beyond Simmel
- Generality and the route to human science
- Modelling the one and the whole
- Bodily characteristics as individual and general
- Generality and the route to liberal society
- Conclusion: Distortion revisited
3.3 Public and Private: Civility as Politesse
- Introduction: 'Politesse'
- Politesse as naturally occurring
- Anthropology and interactional routine
- Anthropology and communication
- Politesse as political policy
- Anthropology and global society
- Politesse as ethos of global becoming
- Politesse as lived practice
- Case-studies of complex society
- Invitation to politesse
- Conclusion: Good manners
AFTERWORD: JEWISH COSMOPOLITANISM
- Jew, Israeli, Cosmopolitan
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