Textures of the ordinary: doing anthropology after Wittgenstein

By:

Das, Veena

Publication details: Orient Blackswan, 2020. Hyderabad:Description: xi, 410 p. ; hb, 25 cmISBN:

9789390122677

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

301.01 DAS

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 book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence.

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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.

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