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About this book
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. In the conditions of refugees and asylum seekers, in the light of mortality statistics and death benefits, and via a genealogical and ethnographical inquiry, the moral economy of life reveals troubling tensions in the way contemporary societies treat human beings. Once the pieces of this anthropological composition are assembled, like in Georges Perec's jigsaw puzzle, an image appears: that of unequal lives.
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Index
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- Adorno, T. 1–3, 11, 121, 122
- African Americans 100, 105, 106–9, 110, 120
- Agamben, G. 10, 28–31, 41, 45, 66, 81, 89
- AIDS 59–60, 62–7, 81–2, 113, 115
- alienation
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- and systems of domination 117–19
- and unequal lives 125
- Angelus Novus, Paul Klee x, 47
- Antelme, R. 82–3
- anthropology 11–18
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- multispecies 26
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- of ethics 52-54
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- of morality 52
- and philosophical dialogue 48–57
- Arendt, H. 6, 10, 47, 67, 68, 81, 89–90
- Aristotle 7, 52, 54, 80, 84
- Asad, T. 77
- asylum seekers and undocumented aliens, South Africa 36–9, 40–4
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- Baker, L. R. 23–4
- Banksy, street artist 35
- bare life 66, 81
- Bargu, B. 78
- Benjamin, W. 11, 16, 67, 68, 80–1
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- death of x, 47
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- binarism/dualism 6–7
- bioeconomics 90
- biogovernmentality 88
- biography and biology 6–7, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the Illustration of the Cover
- Preamble
- I: Forms of Life
- II: Ethics of Life
- III: Politics of Life
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
- End User License Agreement