Screen LibraryNaturalism and social philosophy : contemporary perspectives /
"Can societies fall ill? Can institutions die, or social practices degenerate? Must social norms be embodied? To what extent is social action habitual? Is social life part of nature or does it transcend it? This book explores the meaning and many facets of naturalism in social philosophy. It in...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, MD : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Essex studies in contemporary critical theory
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| Summary: |
"Can societies fall ill? Can institutions die, or social practices degenerate? Must social norms be embodied? To what extent is social action habitual? Is social life part of nature or does it transcend it? This book explores the meaning and many facets of naturalism in social philosophy. It investigates the consequences of concepts such as 'second nature' and 'forms of life' for social philosophy. It analyses the ways in which social action, gender, work and morality are embodied. It surveys the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism. It provides students and experts of social philosophy with both an overview and critical analyses of the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy from Hegel to contemporary critical theory"-- "This book explores the many facets of naturalism in social philosophy, investigating the consequences of concepts such as "second nature" and "forms of life"; analyzing the ways in which social action, gender, work, and morality are embodied; and surveying the conceptions of nature at play in social criticism"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vi, 277 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781538174920 1538174928 |
| Index Number: | B828 |
| CLC: | C02 |
| Call Number: | C02/N285 |
| Contents: |
Naturalism and social philosophy : an introduction / Second nature : the profound depths of a philosophical key term / The stage of difference : on the second nature of civil society in Kant and Hegel / 1880 : first philosophical critique of adaptationism : Nietzsche, reader of Herbert Spencer / Experimentalism, naturalism, and the grounds of social critique / From naturalism to social vitalism : revisiting the Durkheim-Bergson debate on moral obligations / The dual character of social interaction : habit, embodied cognition, and social action / Sex, gender, and ambiguity : Beauvoir on the dilaceration of lived experience / The Naturalist presuppositions of the focus on work and economy in Dewey's social philosophy / The (Meta)Physician of culture : early Nietzsche's disclosing critique of forms of life / 'The Sickness of a Time' : social pathology and therapeutic philosophy / Objective reason, ethical naturalism, and social pathology : the case of Horkheimer and Adorno / |