Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Alessandro Duranti
Politeness
Henri Bergson
Chapter One: A Sympathetic Reading of Bergson's Politeness
Alessandro Duranti
Chapter Two: Politeness is Political
Mahalia Gayle
Chapter Three: "Politesse," Power, and Point of View: Bergson's
Essay in Comparative Perspective
Judith T. Irvine
Chapter Four: "Politeness has a heart": From Mantras to
Stance-Taking in French Children's Socialization to Politeness
Aliyah Morgenstern
Chapter Five: "Hey, but that's not respectful!": Civic Discourse
and Liberal Education
in Pluralistic France
Graham M. Jones
Chapter Six: Giving up on Politeness: The Desire for Tactile
Knowledge and the Art of
Finding Life Lovable
Terra Edwards
Chapter Seven: The Surface of Politesse: Acting murt?? in Dhofar,
Oman
Kamala Russell
Chapter Eight: Programming Politeness: Digital Servantry and the
Rules of Social Engagement
Keith M. Murphy
Chapter Nine: Grace, Too: Reflections on Bergson's Ethics
Jason Throop
Chapter Ten: Bergson's intuitive politeness
William F. Hanks
Index
Alessandro Duranti is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at
UCLA. His books include From Grammar to Politics: Linguistic
Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village (1994), the textbook
Linguistic Anthropology (1997), The Anthropology of Intentions:
Language in a World of Others (2015), and a number of edited
volumes. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the recipient of the John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship, the UCLA Alumni Distinguished Teaching
Award, and the American Anthropological Association/Mayfield Award
for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
In the collective reflection initiated by Alessandro Duranti,
Bergson's Discours sur la politesse, which was intended to edify
high school students, becomes a profound and superb meditation, at
the border between anthropology and linguistics, on the cultural,
moral and political aspects of politeness - as it is and could
be.
*Didier Fassin, author of Life: A Critical User's Manual *
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