Frederick Neuhouser (Columbia University Barnard College)

Diagnosing Social Pathology

Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 386
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781009235037
• ISBN-10: 1009235036
• Artikelnr.: 63689046

Autorenporträt

Frederick Neuhouser is Professor of Philosophy at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Permanent Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Social Change in Berlin. His books include Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity (Cambridge, 1990), Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory (2000), Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love (2008), and Rousseau's Critique of Inequality (Cambridge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

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.