Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons
Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy,…
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Absentees - On Variously Missing Persons
An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. Only somebody can become a "nobody," but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable.
In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics,
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