dc.contributor.author | Rapport, Nigel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-21T11:35:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-21T11:35:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2000-1525 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2449245 | |
dc.description.abstract | The article treats the issue of generality. How may one conceive of the relationship
between the uniqueness of individuality and the commonality of the human
(species and society) without reduction? Can generalization be made moral – eschewing
stereotypes in society – and can it be made authentic – enacting a human
science which treats the individual as a thing-in-itself? Simmel’s seminal intervention
was to see generality as a necessary kind of distortion. In contrast, this
article offers rational models of the one and the whole which expect to retain the
uniqueness of the one; and it suggests characteristics of human embodiment (capacities,
potentialities) that speak to individuality and generality at the same time.
The article ends with a reconsideration of distortion as a humane artistic representation,
by way of the work of Stanley Spencer. | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | Linköping University Electronic Press | nb_NO |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ | |
dc.subject | Generalization; Cosmopolitanism; Individuality; Humanity; Representation; Distortion. | nb_NO |
dc.title | Towards Moral and Authentic Generalization: Humanity, Individual Human Beings and Distortion | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | nb_NO |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | nb_NO |
dc.source.pagenumber | 661-678 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 4 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | Culture Unbound | nb_NO |
dc.description.localcode | Culture Unbound is an Open Access journal, (CC BY-NC) | nb_NO |