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Textures of the Ordinary: Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

By Veena Das

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780823287918
DOI
10.1515/9780823287918
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12086250 bytes)
Pages
432\430
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 19:08:32

Description

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.The author’s work on ordinary language philosophy has already attracted a great deal of attention among anthropologists and literary scholars.

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