List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 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 Bibliography Index