{"product_id":"textures-of-the-ordinary-9780823287697","title":"Textures of the Ordinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTextures of the Ordinary\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e | xi\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e | 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home:\u003cbr\u003e The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real:\u003cbr\u003e Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e The Boundaries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition:\u003cbr\u003e Reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer | 246\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10\u003c\/b\u003e Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e | 333\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e | 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e | 373\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e | 403\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406159192407,"sku":"9780823287697","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823287697.jpg?v=1730494735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/textures-of-the-ordinary-9780823287697","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}