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Life
- A Critical User's Manual
Engelsk Hardback
Life
- A Critical User's Manual
Engelsk Hardback

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How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approaches? Using research conducted on three continents and engaging in critical dialogue with Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Foucault, Didier Fassin attempts to do so by developing three concepts: forms of life, ethics of life, and politics of life. In the conditions of refugees and asylum seekers, in the light of mortality statistics and death benefits, and via a genealogical and ethnographical inquiry, the moral economy of life reveals troubling tensions in the way contemporary societies treat human beings. Once the pieces of this anthropological composition are assembled, like in Georges Perec’s jigsaw puzzle, an image appears: that of unequal lives.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
150
ISBN-13:
9781509526642
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1509526641
Udg. Dato:
18 maj 2018
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
142mm
Højde:
218mm
Forlag:
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato:
18 maj 2018
Forfatter(e):
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