{"product_id":"absentees-daniel-heller-roazen-9781942130475","title":"Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Heller-Roazen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942130473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942130475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Zone Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Daniel Heller-Roazen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44048894853375,"sku":"9781942130475","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a9af3b81-455b-405c-94b1-14919f0749e9.jpg?v=1684998437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/absentees-daniel-heller-roazen-9781942130475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}