Neuhouser Diagnosing Social Pathology

Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-23504-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' – deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neuhouser, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Neuhouser, Frederick
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).