Metaphysical Sociology

On the Work of John Carroll
Herausgeber: James, Sara

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed sociologist John Carroll and makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367821081
• ISBN-10: 0367821087
• Artikelnr.: 58051416

Autorenporträt

Sara James is Lecturer in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of Making a Living, Making a Life: Work, Meaning and Self-Identity (Routledge 2017), a major study of the significance of work in contemporary lives. Sara is co-author of Sociology in Today's World (3rd edition), an introductory sociology text for first-year students, and in 2016 she co-edited a special issue of M/C Journal on authenticity.

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction (Sara James)
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
1. What is Metaphysical Sociology? (John Carroll)
2. The Existential Jesus: Transcript of an interview with Stephen
Crittenden and John Carroll
3. John Carroll's Jesus (Roger Scruton)
4. John Carroll: Towards a Definition of Culture (John Dickson)
5. The Passion in Port Talbot (Michael Sheen)
6. A Neo-Calvinist Sociology: John Carroll's Metaphysical Modernity (Peter
Murphy)
7. The Eclipse of Metaphysics (Keith Tester)
8. Digital Western Dreaming (Marcus Maloney)
9. The Benefit of an Anarcho-Psychological Perspective of Terrorism (Wayne
Bradshaw)
10. Mortality, Time and Embodied Finitude (Margaret Gibson)
11. Modern Metaphysical Romance (Sara James)
12. Response (John Carroll)
Index