Transcendent Individual

Rapport argues that anthropology should demonstrate a commitment to a liberal agenda through a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theorizing and ethnographic writing. This work also argues for a social-scientific appreciation of the individual as methodological, moral, pragmatic and aesthetic subject.

Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively ''write'', narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements over and against culture in favour of individuality.
Rapport draws widely on ethnographic and theoretic materials bringing into the debate a range of voices, among them Nietzsche, Wilde, George Steiner, Richard Rorty, John Berger and Anthony Cohen. In doing so he approaches individuality in terms of a range of issues: biological integrity, consciousness, agency, democracy, discourse, globalism, knowledge and play.

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