Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim by Neuhouser

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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Publication Date
2022-10-27
ISBN
9781009235037
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009235036
ISBN-13
9781009235037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18057255663

Product Key Features

Book Title
Diagnosing Social Pathology : Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
Number of Pages
395 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Social History
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, History
Author
Frederick Neuhouser
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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LCCN
2022-009563
Reviews
'The concept of 'social pathology' seems to be both indispensable to critical social theory and at the same time fraught with problems, as it may invoke illegitimately organicist, conservative conceptions of society. In this path-breaking new book, Frederick Neuhouser, with characteristic philosophical depth and rigor, provides the most potent analysis and defense of the legitimacy of the concept in social theory yet to have appeared.' Arash Abazari, Sharif University of Technology, 'This highly theoretical work will interest students and scholars of social philosophy, social theory, and the history of social thought. ... Highly recommended.' A. J. Trevino, Choice
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
361.001
Table Of Content
1. Can Societies Be Ill?; 2. Society as Organism?; 3. Marx: Pathologies of Capitalist Society; 4. Marx: Labor in Spiritual Life and Social Pathology; 5. Plato: Human Society as Organism; 6. Rousseau: Human Society as Artificial; 7. Durkheim's Predecessors: Comte and Spencer; 8. Durkheim: Functionalism; 9. Durkheim: Solidarity, Moral Facts, and Social Pathology; 10. Durkheim: A Science of Morality; 11. Hegelian Social Ontology I: Objective Spirit; 12. Hegelian Social Ontology II: The Living Good; 13. Hegelian Social Pathology; 14. Conclusion: On Social Ontology.
Edition Description
New Edition
Synopsis
Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? This thought-provoking book masterfully reveals what is at stake in describing societies as 'ill' and why we are drawn to conceive of many social problems as illnesses., Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim - four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' - deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.
LC Classification Number
HN18.N478 2022

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