Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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 anthropology In 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? 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. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children’s games and state censuses; ghosts and “dead souls” illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing—from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne’s Wakefield, Swift’s Captain Gulliver, Kafka’s undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso’s long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One’s Ways will find a continuation of those books’ intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen’s thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.
Absentees
Author: Daniel Heller-Roazen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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 anthropology In 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? 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. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children’s games and state censuses; ghosts and “dead souls” illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing—from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne’s Wakefield, Swift’s Captain Gulliver, Kafka’s undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso’s long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One’s Ways will find a continuation of those books’ intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen’s thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1942130481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
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 anthropology In 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? 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. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children’s games and state censuses; ghosts and “dead souls” illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing—from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne’s Wakefield, Swift’s Captain Gulliver, Kafka’s undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso’s long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One’s Ways will find a continuation of those books’ intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen’s thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.
Trees for the Absentees
Author: Ahlam Bsharat
Publisher: Neem Tree Press
ISBN: 9781911107231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Young love, meddling aunts, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined, Philistia's world is that of an ordinary student. Except in Palestine, and with your father in jail, nothing is ordinary.
Publisher: Neem Tree Press
ISBN: 9781911107231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Young love, meddling aunts, heart-to-hearts with friends real and imagined, Philistia's world is that of an ordinary student. Except in Palestine, and with your father in jail, nothing is ordinary.
The Absentee
Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775415929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives: his mother cannot buy her way into society no matter how hard he tries, and his father is being ruined by her continued attempts. The young Lord then travels to his home in Ireland, encountering adventure on the way, and discovers that the native residents are being exploited in his father's absence.
Farmwork and Schools in Kentucky
Author: Edward Nicholas Clopper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Truancy and Schools
Author: Ken Reid
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134628080
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school * poor performance in school * experiencing bullying in school * not coping with the transition from primary to secondary schooling. This book focuses on the social, psychological and educational causes of truancy. It examines recent research and gives many examples of good practice while also detailing the latest solutions for tackling this problem. The text is for teachers, heads of year and department heads, senior school managers, education welfare officers, social workers, educational psychologists, parents and all those with an interest in educational policy and practice.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134628080
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
At present about one million pupils truant from their schools on a daily basis and this book examines why they do it. The numerous reasons for truanting discussed are: * disadvantageous home backgrounds * problems with settling in socially at school * poor performance in school * experiencing bullying in school * not coping with the transition from primary to secondary schooling. This book focuses on the social, psychological and educational causes of truancy. It examines recent research and gives many examples of good practice while also detailing the latest solutions for tackling this problem. The text is for teachers, heads of year and department heads, senior school managers, education welfare officers, social workers, educational psychologists, parents and all those with an interest in educational policy and practice.
Absentee and Early Voting
Author: John C. Fortier
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
In Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils, John Fortier documents the dramatic increase in absentee voting and, more recently, the meteoric rise in early voting. He examines the legal and historical reasons for changes in the voting system and the many differe...
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
In Absentee and Early Voting: Trends, Promises, and Perils, John Fortier documents the dramatic increase in absentee voting and, more recently, the meteoric rise in early voting. He examines the legal and historical reasons for changes in the voting system and the many differe...
Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times
Author: Thorstein Veblen
Publisher: New York, Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher: New York, Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Campaign in North Carolina
Author: Wiley Hampton Swift
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
AR 190-9 01/18/2007 ABSENTEE DESERTER APPREHENSION PROGRAM AND SURRENDER OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES , Survival Ebooks
Author: Us Department Of Defense
Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
AR 190-9 01/18/2007 ABSENTEE DESERTER APPREHENSION PROGRAM AND SURRENDER OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES , Survival Ebooks
Publisher: Delene Kvasnicka www.survivalebooks.com
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
AR 190-9 01/18/2007 ABSENTEE DESERTER APPREHENSION PROGRAM AND SURRENDER OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TO CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES , Survival Ebooks
Legislative Documents
Author: Iowa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.