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Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, where he directs the Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held a Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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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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Index