{"product_id":"a-matter-of-detail-anthropology-philosophy-and-aesthetics-hardback-9781487550646","title":"A Matter of Detail; Anthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics (Hardback) 9781487550646","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Matter of Detail\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnthropology, Philosophy, and Aesthetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew Brandel (Edited by), Veena Das (Edited by), Sandra Laugier (Edited by), Perig Pitrou (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487550646\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Matter of Detail\u003c\/em\u003e inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences.\u003cbr\u003eFrom this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. On Detail, Details, Detailing: An Overview\u003cbr\u003eVeena Das, Andrew Brandel, Sandra Laugier, and Perig Pitrou\u003cbr\u003e2. The Matter of Description: Detailing, Telling, Collecting\u003cbr\u003eSandra Laugier\u003cbr\u003e3. Ethics and the Details of Life\u003cbr\u003ePiergiorgio Donatelli\u003cbr\u003e4. Detailing Scenes of Ordinary Grief across Ethnography and Poetry\u003cbr\u003eLotte Buch Segal\u003cbr\u003e5. Details in a Minor Key\u003cbr\u003eMarco Motta\u003cbr\u003e6. Forgetting Quotation: Detail in the Dreams of Borges and Le Guin\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Brandel\u003cbr\u003e7. Effecting and Affecting Emotion: When Words Are Not Innocent\u003cbr\u003eVeena Das\u003cbr\u003e8. Hearing the Bird Sing: Chinese Poetry in the Mirror of Life\u003cbr\u003eMichael Puett\u003cbr\u003e9. The Visual Experience of the Details\u003cbr\u003eClaire Brunet\u003cbr\u003e10. The Patience of Detail\u003cbr\u003eFrédérique Ildefonse\u003cbr\u003e11. Tearing the Detail from the Totality: Adorno’s Micrological Gaze\u003cbr\u003eEstelle Ferrarese \u003cbr\u003e12. Following the Clues: Detailing as Anthropological Method\u003cbr\u003ePerig Pitrou\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595945242904,"sku":"9781487550646","price":35.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-matter-of-detail-anthropology-philosophy-and-aesthetics-hardback-9781487550646","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}