Das Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-8232-8791-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

Reihe: Thinking from Elsewhere

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das, Veena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Das Veena:
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.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.