Methodology & History in Anthropology: Anyone : The Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (Series #24) (Hardcover)

• A critique of contemporary social-scientific writings on cosmopolitanism: an argument for cosmopolitanism as a version of identity, belonging and justice that is distinct from current nostra concerning multiculturalism, and that concerns our global humanity and our global individuality.
• An argument and exemplification concerning how a human science must deal with morality alongside social and psychological facts: the moral cannot and should not be kept distinct from the empirical in accounts of human life.
• A conceptualization of global humanity as being represented in unique individuals, as 'Anyone'.
• An argument for 'cosmopolitan politesse' as a kind of civil-interactional scheme, a set of manners, that might recognize and accommodate the individual actor anywhere on the globe and at any time.

The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, solidarity and justice, that avoids the seemingly intractable character of identity politics: it identifies samenesses of the human condition that underlie the surface differences of history, culture and society, nation, ethnicity, religion, class, race and gender. This book argues for the importance of cosmopolitanism as a theory of human being, as a methodology for social science and as a moral and political program.