{"product_id":"absentees-on-variously-missing-persons-hardcover","title":"Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn thirteen interlocking chapters, \u003ci\u003eAbsentees \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Enemy of All\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo One's Ways\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/b\u003e is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eNo One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 23, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768370954528,"sku":"9781942130475","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3e8764c7605d5a5a21c3c7a2643c4d7a.webp?v=1780328082","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/absentees-on-variously-missing-persons-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}