Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons

by Daniel Heller-Roazen

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?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1942130473
• ISBN13: 9781942130475
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"