Didier Fassin is Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His works include Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing and Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition
“It needs the sharp eye of an anthropologist, the empirical
scrutiny of a sociologist, and the imagination of a moral
philosopher to decipher the hidden grammar by which the physical
life of human beings is measured in our globalized world. Didier
Fassin, impressively combining all these talents in one mind, is to
my knowledge the first scholar to have accomplished this enormous
task – a must read for everyone interested in the dark side of
globalization.”
Axel Honneth, Goethe University and Columbia University
“At a time of growing social inequality, Didier Fassin boldly
addresses the persistently unequal valuation of human lives. With
sharp philosophical insight, grounded in vivid ethnographic detail,
the book uncovers the moral and political processes involved in our
treatment of human life. Compassionate and inspiring, Life
contributes to scholarly debates and will at the same time appeal
to a wide audience.”
Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University "[A]n ambitious synthesis
of moral philosophy and anthropological fieldwork, based on the
question of how we can understand existence as both matter and
experience, and as both biology and biography."
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
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