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- Book Title
- Textures of the Ordinary
- Publication Name
- Textures of the Ordinary : Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein
- Title
- Textures of the Ordinary
- Subtitle
- Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0823287696
- EAN
- 9780823287697
- ISBN
- 9780823287697
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Language, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 05/05/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Series
- Thinking from Elsewhere Ser.
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science, Philosophy
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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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, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein's philosophy. Instead, we must learn to see what eludes us in the everyday precisely because it is before our eyes. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive 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. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. With questions returned to repeatedly throughout the text and over a lifetime, this book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823287696
ISBN-13
9780823287697
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11038709328
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Textures of the Ordinary : Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Language, Asia / India & South Asia, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Series
Thinking from Elsewhere Ser.
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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2020-901894
Lc Classification Number
Gn33.D38 2020
Reviews
"A truly extraordinary work. Das allows the reader to see her thinking in action, as she introduces the reader to each key idea and problem, and then takes the reader ever deeper, layer by layer, into the complex implications that need to be explored. It is one of the most exciting and intellectually probing books I have read in a very, very long time." ---Michael Puett, Harvard University, "Reading Textures of the Ordinary transforms our vision of life and ethics and reveals how anthropology can claim to become not only "philosophical" (it has always been that) but philosophy itself." ---Sandra Laugier, University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, "Not just an elegant discourse on how to manage a conceptual life, this is an engagingly courageous one. Like the everyday that accompanies Das at every step, there is no stopping but in the middle. How refreshing her retellings; how illuminating the new hesitations and new certainties that emerge!" ---Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge, Not just an elegant discourse on how to manage a conceptual life, this is an engagingly courageous one. Like the everyday that accompanies Das at every step, there is no stopping but in the middle. How refreshing her retellings; how illuminating the new hesitations and new certainties that emerge!, "Reading Textures of the Ordinary transforms our vision of life and ethics and reveals how anthropology can claim to become not only "philosophical" (it has always been that) but philosophy itself.", A truly extraordinary work. Das allows the reader to see her thinking in action, as she introduces the reader to each key idea and problem, and then takes the reader ever deeper, layer by layer, into the complex implications that need to be explored. It is one of the most exciting and intellectually probing books I have read in a very, very long time.
Table of Content
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
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
301.01
Dewey Edition
23
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