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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood Didier Fassin
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
Didier Fassin
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.
320 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 26, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691137537 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 233 × 19 mm · 490 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Gomme, Rachel |
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