Didier Fassin: Critique of Humanitarian Reason (2010) [LEC, ENG]

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study Humanitarianism, which can be defined as the introduction of moral sentiments into human affairs, is a major component of contemporary politics—locally and globally—for the relief of poverty or the management of disasters, in times of peace as well as in times of war. But how different is the world and our understanding of it when we mobilize compassion r