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Textures of the ordinary : doing anthropology after Wittgenstein / Veena Das.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Das, Veena, author.
- Series:
- Thinking from elsewhere.
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Thinking from elsewhere
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Urban poor--India.
- Urban poor.
- Violence--Philosophy.
- Violence.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
- Cavell, Stanley, 1926-2018.
- Cavell, Stanley.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- '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 text develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 8, 2020).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823290451
- 082329045X
- 9780823287901
- 0823287904
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