Veena Das: Textures of the Ordinary

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Textures of the Ordinary shows how life is marked not only by catastrophic events but also by the soft knife of economic deprivation and the repetitive corrosions and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

Über den Autor

Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and adjunct professor of humanities at the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at the Johns Hopkins University. Her most recent books are Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (2007), Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (2015), and Four Lectures on Ethics (coauthored, 2015). She has also edited or coedited several books on social suffering, living and dying in the contemporary world, and the relation between philosophy and anthropology. Das is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Scientists from Developing Societies, and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. She has received honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago, University of Edinburgh, University of Bern, and from Durham University. In 2015, she received the Nessim Habib Prize from the University of Geneva.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface | xi
Introduction | 1
1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29
2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58
3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96
4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:

The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120
5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148
6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:

Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173
7 The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198
8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216
9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:

Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer | 246
10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275
11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307
Acknowledgments | 333
Notes | 337
References | 373
Index | 403

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780823287697
ISBN-10:	0823287696
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Das, Veena
Hersteller:	Fordham University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	229 x 152 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Veena Das
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.05.2020
Gewicht:	0,694 kg