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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