Bad Binaries and Negative Strategies: A Brief Reply to Didier Fassin and Marilyn Strathern

We thank Didier Fassin and Marilyn Strathern for their generous and generative responses to the volume. Fassin and Strathern both identify the complexity of embarking on an anthropological study of “negative ethics”, and the productive limitations of disciplinary practices of representation, particularly as they pertain to ethical evaluation. Both authors raise important questions about how we make use of concepts to analyse moral life. In this reply, we address three of their helpful prompts...