Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein - Paperback
by Veena Das
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Availability:In StockContributor:Veena DasSeries:Thinking from ElsewherePublish date:2020-05-05Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823287697ISBN-10:823287696UPC:9780823287697Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Language, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCBCW0D8HN
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Fordham University PressISBN-13:9780823287697ISBN-10:823287696UPC:9780823287697Book Category:Social Science, Philosophy, HistoryBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Language, AsiaBook Topic:Cultural & Social, SouthSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCBCW0D8HN
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...
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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