The Empire Of Trauma: An Inquiry Into The Condition Of Victimhood

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.

• | By (Author): Didier Fassin
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 26, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: Not Available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0691137536
• | ISBN-13: 9780691137537