Metaphysical Sociology (eBook, ePUB)

On the Work of John Carroll
Redaktion: James, Sara

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically engages with the work of the acclaimed sociologist John Carroll and makes the argument for a metaphysical sociology. Carroll has proposed that a metaphysical sociology should focus on the questions of fundamental existence that confront all humans - questions of meaning, which, in the modern West, have become increasingly difficult to answer. Through consideration of a range of topics including, film, psychoanalysis, terrorism and everyday life, Metaphysical Sociology takes up the fundamental question of metaphysical sociology - that of people's 'ontological qualities' or inner resources and the means by which they might cultivate them in pursuit of meaning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351608251
• Artikelnr.: 56842735

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