Description
Book SynopsisDisappointment responds to recent calls to imaginatively and creatively theorize an otherwise by showing how collaboration between an anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples â the anti-drug war movement â can disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.
Trade Review"It is an extremely rare occurrence for a book to come along that truly breaks open new possibilities for thinking. This is one of those books. In dialogue with philosophy, political theory, critical theory, and anthropology, Disappointment illuminates pathways for creatively thinking through the necessary intertwinings of ontology, ethics, and politics in an effort to critically diagnose and respond to "the overwhelming disappointment" that characterizes a world that is no longer bearable." -- -C. Jason Throop University of California, Los Angeles "A clear and powerful rethinking of the concept of the political grounded in the world of situations rather than the subject of enunciations, Disappointment announces the arrival of a major new figure in the ontological turn in anthropology." -- -Elizabeth Povinelli Columbia University
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 - The Effective History of Rights
2 – Progress (Or, the repetition of differential sameness)
3 – Worlds and Situations
4 – An Ethics of Dwelling
5 – World-building and Attunement
Epilogue – Critical Hermeneutics
