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Life


Life

A Critical User's Manual
1. Aufl.

von: Didier Fassin

16,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 22.06.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781509526666
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 150

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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.<br /><br /> 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.
<ul style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> <li>Contents</li> <li>Acknowledgements</li> <li>Preamble: Minima Theoria</li> <li>Chapter I. Forms of Life</li> <li>Chapter II. Ethics of Life</li> <li>Chapter III. Politics of Life</li> <li>Conclusion: Unequal Lives</li> <li>Notes</li> <li>References</li> </ul>
<p>“It needs the sharp eye of an anthropologist, the empirical scrutiny of a sociologist, and the imagination of a moral philosopher to decipher the hidden grammar by which the physical life of human beings is measured in our globalized world. Didier Fassin, impressively combining all these talents in one mind, is to my knowledge the first scholar to have accomplished this enormous task – a must read for everyone interested in the dark side of globalization.”<br /><b>Axel Honneth, Goethe University and Columbia University</b><i><b><br /><br /></b></i>“At a time of growing social inequality, Didier Fassin boldly addresses the persistently unequal valuation of human lives. With sharp philosophical insight, grounded in vivid ethnographic detail, the book uncovers the moral and political processes involved in our treatment of human life. Compassionate and inspiring, Life contributes to scholarly debates and will at the same time appeal to a wide audience.”<br /><b>Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University</b></p> <p>"[A]n ambitious synthesis of moral philosophy and anthropological fieldwork, based on the question of how we can understand existence as both matter and experience, and as both biology and biography." <br /><i><b>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</b></i></p>
<b>Didier Fassin</b> is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His works include <i>Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing</i> and <i>Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition</i>

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