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Life: A Critical User's Manual
Contributor(s): Fassin, Didier (Author)
ISBN: 150952665X     ISBN-13: 9781509526659
Publisher: Polity Press
OUR PRICE:   $21.80  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 113.8
LCCN: 2017048527
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.44 lbs) 150 pages
 
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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.

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