Cargando…
Textures of the Ordinary : Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein /
How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York, NY :
Fordham University Press,
[2020]
|
| Colección: | Thinking from Elsewhere
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations
- 2. A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life
- 3. Ordinary Ethics: Take One
- 4. Ethics, Self- Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable
- 5. Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other
- 6. Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi
- 7. The Boundaries of the "We": Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life
- 8. A Child Dis appears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life
- 9. Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer
- 10. Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge- Making
- 11. The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index