Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present by Ivanovic, Mlado

Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004768420)

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Format: Hardcover
$133.00
$133.00
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Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present by Ivanovic, Mlado

Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present

$133.00
Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present by Ivanovic, Mlado

Holding Hands with Death: Ethical Promises and Political Failures of Our Humanitarian Present

$133.00
Format: Hardcover
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You live in a world saturated with images of suffering, appeals to compassion, and calls to care. But why do these moral encounters so often leave the structures of violence untouched? This book offers a critical philosophical account of contemporary regimes of care, showing how compassion, representation, and moral spectatorship can make suffering visible while blunting its political force. Bringing critical theory, phenomenology, and moral and political philosophy into dialogue with scholarship on aid, displacement, and global suffering, it reveals how humanitarianism manages vulnerability rather than confronting the conditions that produce it. For readers concerned with vulnerability, violence, and the demands of justice, this book challenges how you think about care, responsibility, and justice in a world where suffering is made visible even as its structural conditions remain untouched.

Author: Mlado Ivanovic
ISBN-10: 9004768424
ISBN-13: 9789004768420
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2026
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.10w x 0.69d
By Mlado Ivanovic
By Mlado Ivanovic
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Mlado Ivanovic, Ph.D. (2017), Michigan State University, is a philosopher and humanitarian practitioner whose work brings together humanitarianism, political theory, and social ethics. His research examines how contemporary injustices are reproduced through structural, material, and symbolic forms of violence, particularly in relation to forced displacement and the politics of humanitarian aid. He has taught philosophy at several U.S. universities and has collaborated with humanitarian and refugee-support initiatives in the United States, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, and Malawi. His published work explores the ethical and political dimensions of humanitarianism, forced displacement, and vulnerability.

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