Where is the Good in the World? : : Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy / / ed. by Anna Strhan, Joel Robbins, David Henig.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Abbott, Owen,; Chong, Kimberly,; Cooke, Maeve,; Henig, David,; Jeleniewski Seidler, Victor,; Lambek, Michael,; Lukes, Steven,; Lynch, Gordon,; Shillitoe, Rachael,; Strhan, Anna,; Wilkinson, Iain,
• HerausgeberIn: Robbins, Joel,; Sheldon, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: WYSE Series in Social Anthropology ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The Good between Social Theory and Philosophy -- Part I. Theoretical Perspectives -- 1. Where Is the Good in the World? -- 2. Nowhere and Everywhere -- 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice -- 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It -- 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory -- Part I. Commentary -- Part II. Approaching the Good in Everyday Life -- 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent Is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church -- 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China -- 8. ‘God Isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London -- 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies -- 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography -- 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Part II. Commentary -- Index