Where is the Good in the World?

Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy

David Henig, Anna Strhan, Joel Robbins (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-551-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	14.06.2022
Reihe/Serie	WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-80073-551-0 / 1800735510
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-551-4 / 9781800735514
Zustand	Neuware