Didier Fassin: “Saving lives has become illegitimate and reprehensible”

In an interview with Sonya Faure of Libération, Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, discusses his forthcoming book Life: A Critical User’s Manual and the new edition of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present, focusing on the different valuations of life, and the changing attitudes toward migrants and refugees.