The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science

Author:   Huon Wardle (University of St. Andrews, UK) ,  Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Albert Piette (Paris Nanterre University, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367742317


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Format:   Hardback
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"This volume is the first handbook to explore existentialism as epistemology and method. Transdisciplinary in scope, it considers the nature of human subjectivity and how human experience ought to be studied, examining the connections that exist between the individual’s imagining of the world and their everyday practice within it. With attention to the question of whether humans are ultimately alone in their self-knowledge or whether what they know of themselves is constructed in common with others, it enables the reader to recognize core questions that frame the methods and orientation of an existential inquiry. In addition to historical exposition, it offers a variety of chapters from around the world that explore the diverse global spaces for, and different types of, existential focus and discussion, thus questioning the view that the existential ""problem"" may be singularly a matter for the post-enlightenment West. The fullest and most comprehensive survey to date of what human beings can and should make of themselves, The Routledge International Handbook of Existential Human Science will appeal to scholars across the humanities and social sciences with interests in anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and research methods."

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Author:   Huon Wardle (University of St. Andrews, UK) ,  Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews, UK) ,  Albert Piette (Paris Nanterre University, France)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.000kg
ISBN:  

9780367742317


ISBN 10:   0367742314
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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1. General Introduction: The Routledge Handbook of Existential Human Science Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines 2. Introduction to Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines 3. Existential Sociology 4. Existential Psychology 5. Anthropology as an Existential Inquiry 6. Existential Psychiatry and Psychotherapy 7. Existentiality and Semiotics - are they compatible? 8. Kant and the Principles of Existentialism Section 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 9. Introduction to Section 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 10. Unsociable Sociability 11. Internal Conversation: Interiority and Individuality 12. Relational, but also Singular: On the Varieties and Particularities of Selfscapes 13. The Ballad (or Fugue) of William Cullum: Disciplining the Body of Prisoner 55552-052 14. The Car Driver’s Being: A Different Direction to the Auto-Ontological Turn 15. Existentialism and Tango Social Dance: The Anthropology of (Moving) Events Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other 16. Introduction to Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other 17. Existential Care Ethics 18. Faith and the Existential 19. Existence Against Being 20. (In)Dividual Lives and Existential Narratives 21. Existential Finitude in Indian Buddhist Philosophy 22. Exploring the Relationship Between Language and Empathy: Some Unexpected Connections Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity 23. Introduction to Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity 24. The Loss of Singular Existence and Personal Experience: The Problem of Interchangeability in the Social Sciences 25. Sartrean Existentialism and Existential Art 26. Volumology as Existential Anthropology 27. An Empirical Approach to Studying Human Existence 28. Filming and Describing an Individual

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"Huon Wardle is an Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews. Author of An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (2000), he focuses on the Caribbean, Kant’s Anthropology, and on cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical phenomena. Volumes include (with Moises Lino e Silva) Freedom in Practice (2017), (with Justin Shaffner) Cosmopolitics (2017), and (with Nigel Rapport) An Anthropology of the Enlightenment (2018). His essay, ""The Artist Carl Abrahams and the Cosmopolitan Work of Centring and Peripheralizing the Self"" won the Royal Anthropological Institute’s J. B. Donne Prize in 2014. With Paloma Gay y Blasco, he recently revised How to Read Ethnography (2019). Nigel Rapport, MA (Cambridge) PhD (Manchester), is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). His research interests cover social theory, identity and individuality, community, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy. His recent books include: Anyone, the Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (2012); Distortion and Love: An anthropological reading of the life and art of Stanley Spencer (2016); and Cosmopolitan Love: Ethical engagement beyond culture (2019). Albert Piette is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, researcher at the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CNRS). He has widely written about epistemology and methodology of anthropology. He claims a human-centered anthropology. His main books in French are Ethnographie de l’action (1996 and 2020), Le fait religieux (2005), Anthropologie existentiale (2009), Contre le relationnisme (2014), Le volume humain. Esquisse d’une science de l’homme (2017) and Anthropologie existentiale, autographie et entité humaine (2022). His books in English are Existence in the Details. Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology (2015), Separate Humans. Anthropology, Ontology, Existence (2016), Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being (2019). He has co-edited with Michael Jackson What is Existential Anthropology? (2015)."

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