Life: A Critical User's Manual

ISBN-13: 9781509526659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 150 str.

Didier Fassin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.
Axel Honneth, Goethe University and Columbia University

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.
Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University

Spis treści

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preamble: Minima Theoria
• Chapter I. Forms of Life
• Chapter II. Ethics of Life
• Chapter III. Politics of Life
• Conclusion: Unequal Lives
• Notes
• References

O autorze

Didier Fassin is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His works include Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing and Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition