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On the Inequality of Lives - Didier Fassin - Collège de France

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On the Inequality of Lives

Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 16 January 2020

de Didier Fassin (auteur)
Maison d'édition : Collège de France
septembre 2023
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There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the former; a life story relates the richness of the latter.

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There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the former; a life story relates the richness of the latter. Only by acknowledging both can the inequality of lives be comprehended. They should be conceived of as being both distinct and connected: distinct, because the paradox of French women shows that a long life is no guarantee of a good life; connected, because the experience of African-American men stands as a reminder that a devalued life is a damaged life. This also raises the question of refugees and migrants.

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  • Didier Fassin (auteur)

    Didier Fassin (MD, University of Paris; PhD, Social Sciences, EHESS; Habilitation, Public Health, University of Paris; Habilitation, Social Sciences, EHESS) is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute foe Advanced Study and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of When Bodies Remember: Politics and Experience of AIDS in South Africa (California, 2007), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (California, 2011), Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (Polity, 2013), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Polity, 2016), and Life: A Critical User's Manual (Polity, forthcoming) and the coauthor of (with R. Rechtman) The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (Princeton, 2009), (with Y. Bouagga) At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (Pluto, 2015), and (with M. Lambek, V. Das, and W. Keane) Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (Hau, 2015). A former vice president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, he is currently president of the French Medical Committee for Exiles. He was awarded a 2o18 Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award from the NOMIS Foundation.

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Editeur : Collège de France

Auteur(s) : Didier Fassin

Publication : 11 septembre 2023

Edition : 1ère édition

Intérieur : Noir & blanc

Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [PDF + ePub + Mobi/Kindle + WEB]

Contenu(s) : PDF, ePub, Mobi/Kindle, WEB

Protection(s) : Marquage social (PDF), Marquage social (ePub), Marquage social (Mobi/Kindle), DRM (WEB)

Taille(s) : 398 ko (PDF), 1,44 Mo (ePub), 2,93 Mo (Mobi/Kindle), 1 octet (WEB)

Langue(s) : Anglais

Code(s) CLIL : 3081, 3165

EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [PDF + ePub + Mobi/Kindle + WEB] : 9782722606197

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