“This is a highly commendable piece of literature that will surely enrich the understanding of the intersection of social theory and philosophy as it relates to the good, and its interdisciplinary approach makes a complex topic both approachable and applicable for a diverse readership.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“This is a stimulating collection that generatively engages an emerging area across multiple disciplines. The volume's structure is tightly conceptualized, and the essays often provocative. The volume is well poised to earn a committed readership.” • James Bielo, Miami University

Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction David Henig and Anna Strhan Part I: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World? Joel Robbins Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere Michael Lambek Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice Owen Abbott Chapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It Iain Wilkinson Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory Victor Jeleniewski Seidler Part I: Commentary Steven Lukes Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life Chapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church Gordon Lynch Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China Kimberly Chong Chapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London Anna Strhan Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies Rachael Shillitoe Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography Ruth Sheldon Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina David Henig Part II: Commentary Maeve Cooke Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781805397359
Publisert
2024-11-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
260

Biographical note

David Henig is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the author of Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (Illinois UP, 2020) and the co-editor of Economies of Favour After Socialism (OUP, 2017).