{"product_id":"absentees-on-variously-missing-persons-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Heller-Roazen\u003c\/b\u003e is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eNo One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Zone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444269289746,"sku":"9781942130475","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8cce1a96-afcd-450a-8763-1f5fee0ac3ab.jpg?v=1729678333","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/absentees-on-variously-missing-persons-9781942130475","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}