Thinking about social life / Lloyd E. Sandelands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandelands, Lloyd E., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social interaction.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

vi, 169 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Summary:

This book is a work of philosophy concerning how we should think about social life. Whereas social science has traditionally been a study of social physics (a study of material individuals that interact in time and space) it must become a study of social life (a study of the vital forms and feelings of an inherently social species).

Contents:

In the Image of a Tree

A Philosophical Challenge

Further Preliminaries

A Look Ahead

Chapter 2 Love 15

Poetry

Puzzles

Love a Phase of Social Life

Love a Moment of Social Life

Chapter 3 Play 35

Innocence Lost

Play a Phase of Social Life

Play a Moment of Social Life

Chapter 4 Individuation 53

Images

Individuation a Phase of Social Life

Individuation a Moment of Social Life

Chapter 5 A Concept of Social Life 67

Lives and Feelings

Form Sometimes Felt

Form Before and Beyond Structure

Chapter 6 Individual and Society 95

The Individual and Society Problem

Unpacking the Problem

The Problem in New Light

Social Life in the Balance

Chapter 7 Mind and Body 111

The Mind and Body Problem

Thinking about Social Life

Whither Individuals?

Art and Living Explanation

Living for the Future

In the Image of a Tree.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-161) and index.

ISBN:

0761827080

OCLC:

54060438