Diagnosing Social Pathology
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Diagnosing Social Pathology

Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim

  1. 388 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Diagnosing Social Pathology

Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
eBook ISBN
9781009235044
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Note on Citations
  9. Chapter 1 Can Societies Be Ill?
  10. Chapter 2 Society as Organism?
  11. Chapter 3 Marx: Pathologies of Capitalist Society
  12. Chapter 4 Marx: Labor in Spiritual Life and Social Pathology
  13. Chapter 5 Plato: Human Society as Organism
  14. Chapter 6 Rousseau: Human Society as Artificial
  15. Chapter 7 Durkheim’s Predecessors: Comte and Spencer
  16. Chapter 8 Durkheim: Functionalism
  17. Chapter 9 Durkheim: Solidarity, Moral Facts, and Social Pathology
  18. Chapter 10 Durkheim: A Science of Morality
  19. Chapter 11 Hegelian Social Ontology I: Objective Spirit
  20. Chapter 12 Hegelian Social Ontology II: The Living Good
  21. Chapter 13 Hegelian Social Pathology
  22. Chapter 14 Conclusion: On Social Ontology
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index

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