Huon Wardle is an Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews. Author of An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (2000), he focuses on the Caribbean, Kant’s Anthropology, and on cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical phenomena. Volumes include (with Moises Lino e Silva) Freedom in Practice (2017), (with Justin Shaffner) Cosmopolitics (2017), and (with Nigel Rapport) An Anthropology of the Enlightenment (2018). His essay, "The Artist Carl Abrahams and the Cosmopolitan Work of Centring and Peripheralizing the Self" won the Royal Anthropological Institute’s J. B. Donne Prize in 2014. With Paloma Gay y Blasco, he recently revised How to Read Ethnography (2019).Nigel Rapport, MA (Cambridge) PhD (Manchester), is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). His research interests cover social theory, identity and individuality, community, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy. His recent books include: Anyone, the Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (2012); Distortion and Love: An anthropological reading of the life and art of Stanley Spencer (2016); and Cosmopolitan Love: Ethical engagement beyond culture (2019).Albert Piette is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, researcher at the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CNRS). He has widely written about epistemology and methodology of anthropology. He claims a human-centered anthropology. His main books in French are Ethnographie de l’action (1996 and 2020), Le fait religieux (2005), Anthropologie existentiale (2009), Contre le relationnisme (2014), Le volume humain. Esquisse d’une science de l’homme (2017) and Anthropologie existentiale, autographie et entité humaine (2022). His books in English are Existence in the Details. Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology (2015), Separate Humans. Anthropology, Ontology, Existence (2016), Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being (2019). He has co-edited with Michael Jackson What is Existential Anthropology? (2015).

• 1. General Introduction: The Routledge Handbook of Existential Human Science Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines2. Introduction to Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines 3. Existential Sociology 4. Existential Psychology 5. Anthropology as an Existential Inquiry 6. Existential Psychiatry and Psychotherapy7. Existentiality and Semiotics - are they compatible? 8. Kant and the Principles of ExistentialismSection 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 9. Introduction to Section 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 10. Unsociable Sociability 11. Internal Conversation: Interiority and Individuality 12. Relational, but also Singular: On the Varieties and Particularities of Selfscapes 13. The Ballad (or Fugue) of William Cullum: Disciplining the Body of Prisoner 55552-052 14. The Car Driver’s Being: A Different Direction to the Auto-Ontological Turn 15. Existentialism and Tango Social Dance: The Anthropology of (Moving) Events Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other16. Introduction to Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other 17. Existential Care Ethics 18. Faith and the Existential 19. Existence Against Being 20. (In)Dividual Lives and Existential Narratives 21. Existential Finitude in Indian Buddhist Philosophy 22. Exploring the Relationship Between Language and Empathy: Some Unexpected Connections Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity23. Introduction to Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity 24. The Loss of Singular Existence and Personal Experience: The Problem of Interchangeability in the Social Sciences 25. Sartrean Existentialism and Existential Art 26. Volumology as Existential Anthropology27. An Empirical Approach to Studying Human Existence 28. Filming and Describing an Individual

Huon Wardle is an Anthropologist at the University of St Andrews. Author of An Ethnography of Cosmopolitanism in Kingston, Jamaica (2000), he focuses on the Caribbean, Kant’s Anthropology, and on cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical phenomena. Volumes include (with Moises Lino e Silva) Freedom in Practice (2017), (with Justin Shaffner) Cosmopolitics (2017), and (with Nigel Rapport) An Anthropology of the Enlightenment (2018). His essay, "The Artist Carl Abrahams and the Cosmopolitan Work of Centring and Peripheralizing the Self" won the Royal Anthropological Institute’s J. B. Donne Prize in 2014. With Paloma Gay y Blasco, he recently revised How to Read Ethnography (2019).Nigel Rapport, MA (Cambridge) PhD (Manchester), is Emeritus Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was Founding Director of the St Andrews Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies. He has also held the Canada Research Chair in Globalization, Citizenship and Justice at Concordia University of Montreal. He has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), and of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW). His research interests cover social theory, identity and individuality, community, conversation analysis, and links between anthropology and literature and philosophy. His recent books include: Anyone, the Cosmopolitan Subject of Anthropology (2012); Distortion and Love: An anthropological reading of the life and art of Stanley Spencer (2016); and Cosmopolitan Love: Ethical engagement beyond culture (2019).Albert Piette is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Paris-Nanterre, researcher at the Centre for Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (CNRS). He has widely written about epistemology and methodology of anthropology. He claims a human-centered anthropology. His main books in French are Ethnographie de l’action (1996 and 2020), Le fait religieux (2005), Anthropologie existentiale (2009), Contre le relationnisme (2014), Le volume humain. Esquisse d’une science de l’homme (2017) and Anthropologie existentiale, autographie et entité humaine (2022). His books in English are Existence in the Details. Theory and Methodology in Existential Anthropology (2015), Separate Humans. Anthropology, Ontology, Existence (2016), Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being (2019). He has co-edited with Michael Jackson What is Existential Anthropology? (2015).

• 1. General Introduction: The Routledge Handbook of Existential Human Science Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines2. Introduction to Section 1. The Existential Perspective Across the Disciplines 3. Existential Sociology 4. Existential Psychology 5. Anthropology as an Existential Inquiry 6. Existential Psychiatry and Psychotherapy7. Existentiality and Semiotics - are they compatible? 8. Kant and the Principles of ExistentialismSection 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 9. Introduction to Section 2. Interiority, Selfhood and Integrity: The Individual as regards the Social 10. Unsociable Sociability 11. Internal Conversation: Interiority and Individuality 12. Relational, but also Singular: On the Varieties and Particularities of Selfscapes 13. The Ballad (or Fugue) of William Cullum: Disciplining the Body of Prisoner 55552-052 14. The Car Driver’s Being: A Different Direction to the Auto-Ontological Turn 15. Existentialism and Tango Social Dance: The Anthropology of (Moving) Events Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other16. Introduction to Section 3. Intersubjectivity: Care for and Faith in the Other 17. Existential Care Ethics 18. Faith and the Existential 19. Existence Against Being 20. (In)Dividual Lives and Existential Narratives 21. Existential Finitude in Indian Buddhist Philosophy 22. Exploring the Relationship Between Language and Empathy: Some Unexpected Connections Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity23. Introduction to Section 4. Human Singularity and Continuity 24. The Loss of Singular Existence and Personal Experience: The Problem of Interchangeability in the Social Sciences 25. Sartrean Existentialism and Existential Art 26. Volumology as Existential Anthropology27. An Empirical Approach to Studying Human Existence 28. Filming and Describing an Individual