Didier Fassin
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Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was previously vice president of Doctors Without Borders and is presently president of Comité Médical pour les Exilés (COMEDE). He has received numerous prizes and awards for his work as well as the gold medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2016.
Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was previously vice president of Doctors Without Borders and is presently president of Comité Médical pour les Exilés (COMEDE). He has received numerous prizes and awards for his work as well as the gold medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2016.
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Year of Publication: 2017
Didier FassinYear of Publication: 2017
Life
Since antiquity, life, in Adorno’s words, has been the true field of philosophy asking about what the right and good life was. For a little more than a century, however, life has also...
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