Didier Fassin

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Life: A Critical User's ManualPaperback, 16 July 2018

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Print Length
150 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Polity Press
Date Published
16 Jul 2018
ISBN-10
150952665X
ISBN-13
9781509526659

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Didier Fassin
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
16 July 2018
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.72 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
150952665X
ISBN-13:
9781509526659
Language:
English
Pages:
150
Publisher:
Weight:
199.58 gm

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