John Keith Hart
My intellectual home is the North Atlantic quadrilateral--Britain and France, West Africa, the US and the Caribbean--that was formed by the slave trade and made the modern world. I am a writer who has lived and worked in 24 countries. My homes are in Paris and Durban. I believe that engaged intellectuals should try to understand and shape emergent world society.
Find 400 papers at my Profile: https://cambridge.academia.edu/JohnKeithHart. Visit my website: https://keithhart.academia.edu/ and 'A better world somewhere': https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/.
A synthesis of my main work in 8 parts starts from https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/the-hitmans-dilemma-on-business-personal. A summary of my life's work on the role of economy in this project is at https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/economies-connecting-local-and-global.
General:
An engaged anthropology for the 21st century, 6 parts from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrkndegGEc&t=167s
https://www.academia.edu/97845465/Keith_Harts_Anthropology_Social_Observation_World_History_and_Humanist_Philosophy.
https://www.academia.edu/99766594/The_decline_of_the_West_again_current_affairs_and_historical_analysis_since_2000
https://www.academia.edu/98286552/Deep_explorations_in_transnational_history_whats_the_point.
My philosophy hinges on a human economy with money forms central to it https://www.academia.edu/99447931/Building_the_Human_Economy_Together_introductory_chapter
Money in the making of world society is a lecture in 5 parts starting from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuu89EmPREA.
https://www.academia.edu/99126941/Human_Economy_as_a_Religious_Project.
https://www.academia.edu/99324737/The_anti_colonial_intellectuals_Thinking_new_worlds; https://www.academia.edu/97504117/Africa_on_my_mind.
https://www.academia.edu/99765658/The_coming_world_crisis_is_here_now
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An illustrated Lagos interview has a focus relevant to its African readers:
https://bordersliteratureonline.net/globaldetails/keith_hart.
Video interviews cover life up to moving to Paris and Durban 25 years ago:
Part 1 1943-1983: From Manchester via Cambridge to America (2006, 62 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z8JsVKVJ9M
Part 2.1 1983-1998 Back to Cambridge (2009, 57 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPPxqXGa35k&t=91s
Part 2.2 1986-89 The turning point: Jamaica and C.L.R. James (10 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQpEtpdHzs
MULTIMEDIA
See me at Ricardo Leizaola's https://www.youtube.com/@arepatv/videos.
Constance Hart helped to compile these pages on three of my main interests
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/a-humanist-approach-to-money-markets-and-technology
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/my-music-the-art-of-movement
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/writing-and-teaching-about-africa-1800-2100 (work in progress).
BOOKS
Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes (2022): https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf;
https://www.berose.fr/article2803.html.
https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/marcel-mauss-the-man-is-the-message
Former editor: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series/human-economy.
The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World and The Hit Man's Dilemma: On business personal and impersonal (2005) are available online:
https://www.academia.edu/43704787/The_memory_bank_book_on_money
https://www.academia.edu/84600911/THE_HIT_MANS_DILEMMA
LIFELONG LEARNING: MY EDUCATION IN RETROSPECT
https://researchfeatures.com/self-world-connecting-lifes-extremes-keith-john-hart/
Life-long learning and modern education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6lgyu4nFs
https://www.academia.edu/97762812/LEARNING_REMEMBERING_AND_SHARING
MANCHESTER
https://www.academia.edu/95783361/Manchester_on_my_mind_a_memoir
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf.
Keith Hart's improvised Cambridge tour: 7 parts from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7ObPmBPVI&t=69s.
https://www.academia.edu/88348884/Thomas_Clarkson_Cambridge_and_the_Abolition_of_Slavery
https://www.academia.edu/20265273/The_1898_Cambridge_expedition_to_the_Torres_Straits_in_British_social_anthropology
https://www.academia.edu/94550808/Anthropology_and_the_crisis_of_the_intellectuals (with Anna Grimshaw)
https://www.academia.edu/43334273/Decolonizing_Cambridge_University.
DAVID GRAEBER
https://www.academia.edu/44852890/David_Graeber_1961_2020_
https://www.academia.edu/44225307/David_Graeber_and_the_Anthropology_of_Unequal_Society
https://www.academia.edu/65485694/Comment_on_David_Graeber_Debt_The_First_5_000_Years
https://www.academia.edu/82800480/Contribution_to_a_round_table_on_David_Graeber
https://www.academia.edu/48898491/Anthropology_as_a_revolutionary_project_David_Graebers_political_legacy
MY MENTOR, C.L.R. JAMES
https://www.academia.edu/97324744/Nine_papers_on_C_L_R_James_the_Caribbeans_leading_thinker_of_the_last_century
Phone: +33684797365
Address: 135 rue du Faubourg Poissonniere
interphone: Chevalier-Hart
75009 Paris, France
Find 400 papers at my Profile: https://cambridge.academia.edu/JohnKeithHart. Visit my website: https://keithhart.academia.edu/ and 'A better world somewhere': https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/.
A synthesis of my main work in 8 parts starts from https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/the-hitmans-dilemma-on-business-personal. A summary of my life's work on the role of economy in this project is at https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/economies-connecting-local-and-global.
General:
An engaged anthropology for the 21st century, 6 parts from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrkndegGEc&t=167s
https://www.academia.edu/97845465/Keith_Harts_Anthropology_Social_Observation_World_History_and_Humanist_Philosophy.
https://www.academia.edu/99766594/The_decline_of_the_West_again_current_affairs_and_historical_analysis_since_2000
https://www.academia.edu/98286552/Deep_explorations_in_transnational_history_whats_the_point.
My philosophy hinges on a human economy with money forms central to it https://www.academia.edu/99447931/Building_the_Human_Economy_Together_introductory_chapter
Money in the making of world society is a lecture in 5 parts starting from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuu89EmPREA.
https://www.academia.edu/99126941/Human_Economy_as_a_Religious_Project.
https://www.academia.edu/99324737/The_anti_colonial_intellectuals_Thinking_new_worlds; https://www.academia.edu/97504117/Africa_on_my_mind.
https://www.academia.edu/99765658/The_coming_world_crisis_is_here_now
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
An illustrated Lagos interview has a focus relevant to its African readers:
https://bordersliteratureonline.net/globaldetails/keith_hart.
Video interviews cover life up to moving to Paris and Durban 25 years ago:
Part 1 1943-1983: From Manchester via Cambridge to America (2006, 62 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z8JsVKVJ9M
Part 2.1 1983-1998 Back to Cambridge (2009, 57 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPPxqXGa35k&t=91s
Part 2.2 1986-89 The turning point: Jamaica and C.L.R. James (10 mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjQpEtpdHzs
MULTIMEDIA
See me at Ricardo Leizaola's https://www.youtube.com/@arepatv/videos.
Constance Hart helped to compile these pages on three of my main interests
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/a-humanist-approach-to-money-markets-and-technology
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/my-music-the-art-of-movement
https://www.growkudos.com/projects/writing-and-teaching-about-africa-1800-2100 (work in progress).
BOOKS
Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes (2022): https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf;
https://www.berose.fr/article2803.html.
https://johnkeithhart.substack.com/p/marcel-mauss-the-man-is-the-message
Former editor: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/series/human-economy.
The Memory Bank: Money in an Unequal World and The Hit Man's Dilemma: On business personal and impersonal (2005) are available online:
https://www.academia.edu/43704787/The_memory_bank_book_on_money
https://www.academia.edu/84600911/THE_HIT_MANS_DILEMMA
LIFELONG LEARNING: MY EDUCATION IN RETROSPECT
https://researchfeatures.com/self-world-connecting-lifes-extremes-keith-john-hart/
Life-long learning and modern education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6lgyu4nFs
https://www.academia.edu/97762812/LEARNING_REMEMBERING_AND_SHARING
MANCHESTER
https://www.academia.edu/95783361/Manchester_on_my_mind_a_memoir
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
Self in the World: Connecting Life's Extremes https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HartSelf.
Keith Hart's improvised Cambridge tour: 7 parts from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux7ObPmBPVI&t=69s.
https://www.academia.edu/88348884/Thomas_Clarkson_Cambridge_and_the_Abolition_of_Slavery
https://www.academia.edu/20265273/The_1898_Cambridge_expedition_to_the_Torres_Straits_in_British_social_anthropology
https://www.academia.edu/94550808/Anthropology_and_the_crisis_of_the_intellectuals (with Anna Grimshaw)
https://www.academia.edu/43334273/Decolonizing_Cambridge_University.
DAVID GRAEBER
https://www.academia.edu/44852890/David_Graeber_1961_2020_
https://www.academia.edu/44225307/David_Graeber_and_the_Anthropology_of_Unequal_Society
https://www.academia.edu/65485694/Comment_on_David_Graeber_Debt_The_First_5_000_Years
https://www.academia.edu/82800480/Contribution_to_a_round_table_on_David_Graeber
https://www.academia.edu/48898491/Anthropology_as_a_revolutionary_project_David_Graebers_political_legacy
MY MENTOR, C.L.R. JAMES
https://www.academia.edu/97324744/Nine_papers_on_C_L_R_James_the_Caribbeans_leading_thinker_of_the_last_century
Phone: +33684797365
Address: 135 rue du Faubourg Poissonniere
interphone: Chevalier-Hart
75009 Paris, France
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Frantz Fanon each grappled with the problem. Like most revolutionaries, they each started out as lower middle class, between the workers and the high bourgeoisie. They lived in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries respectively. All three believed that unequal society corrupts human nature. Yet human beings have the potential for redemption. We can become whole again by tackling the root causes of unequal society together. For Rousseau, it meant abolishing the arbitrary class divisions of agrarian civilization, for Marx the class structure of industrial capitalism, for Fanon it was the racism of colonial empires. All of these made people only part-human. Most people were denied the chance to be whole persons in society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, and Frantz Fanon each grappled with the problem. Like most revolutionaries, they each started out as lower middle class, between the workers and the high bourgeoisie. They lived in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries respectively. All three believed that unequal society corrupts human nature. Yet human beings have the potential for redemption. We can become whole again by tackling the root causes of unequal society together. For Rousseau, it meant abolishing the arbitrary class divisions of agrarian civilization, for Marx the class structure of industrial capitalism, for Fanon it was the racism of colonial empires. All of these made people only part-human. Most people were denied the chance to be whole persons in society.
The current version published on Cultural Anthropology's Member Voices site, is a transcription of the conversation we held for Keith, which took place at the 2018 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) meeting in Stockholm. We asked people to think about the great themes of Keith’s work, including both methods and topics: money and currency; and scale and how to bridge individual experience, global process, and world history.