Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

Where is the Good in the World?: Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
ISBN-10
1800735529
ISBN-13
9781800735521
Category
Social Science
Pages
259
Language
English
Published
2022-07-08
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Anna Strhan, Joel Robbins, David Henig

Description

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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