The Kingdom of Individuals : : An Essay on Self-Respect and Social Obligation / / F. G. Bailey.
In his distinctive, highly engaging style, F. G. Bailey meditates on individual prerogative and the coercive restraints exercised on people by large organizations. His witty, on-the-mark comments come directly from his own lifelong discomfort with hierarchy and authority.A wealth of personal anecdot...
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Bailey, F. G., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Kingdom of Individuals : An Essay on Self-Respect and Social Obligation / F. G. Bailey. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1993 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Disengaging within Collectivities -- 2. Manufacturing Dignity -- 3. Dismantling Institutional Dignity -- 4. Sidestepping Dignity -- 5. Personal Dignity -- 6. Split Vision -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In his distinctive, highly engaging style, F. G. Bailey meditates on individual prerogative and the coercive restraints exercised on people by large organizations. His witty, on-the-mark comments come directly from his own lifelong discomfort with hierarchy and authority.A wealth of personal anecdotes lends immediacy to problems and issues often treated on an abstract and impersonal level, as Bailey recollects his own experiences in school during the depression years in England, in the British wartime army, and both in peasant societies (as a practicing anthropologist) and in industrial societies (as an academic). He first makes a distinction between the pervasive spirit of collectivism that marks the social sciences (economics excepted) and disengagement—that is, the resistance individuals make to being absorbed into collectivities. Then he discusses tactics: how collectivities legitimate themselves and how individuals resist these collectivities in an effort to keep their own separate identities. Finally, he draws on his wartime experience and on the everyday lives of working-class people to show how organizations usually defeat themselves if they try to define individualism out of existence.The Kingdom of Individuals is a trenchant and entertaining commentary on the dilemma of being a citizen. Of particular interest to political and cultural anthropologists, it will also appeal to anyone who believes that bureaucracies too often overstep themselves and trespass into each of our lives as individuals. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Social. bisacsh Bailey, F. G., contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733291 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733291 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733291/original |
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