Fassin Didier, Rechtman Richard:
The Empire Of Trauma
An Inquiry Into The Condition Of Victimhood
Translator: RachelGomme
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2009
Paperback, 304 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780691137537
ISBN-10: 0691137536
List price: £16.95
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The Empire Of Trauma
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.

