The Empire of Trauma An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood |
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| Author:
| Fassin, Didier
Rechtman, Richard |
| Translator:
| Gomme, Rachel |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-13753-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $37.00 |
Book Description:
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Tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, this title provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.
Tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, this title provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.