Sociological trespasses : interrogating sin and flesh / James Aho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aho, James A., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hostility (Psychology).

Human body--Social aspects.

Human body.

Mind and body.

Common fallacies.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. In this book, however, they are not viewed as social problems to be solved by technical experts. Instead, they are viewed as products of the joint transference of aspects of ourselves onto objects independent of ourselves. More specifically, they emerge from conviction there is something ""out there" that can complete us, secure us, fill us, stabilize us, or in some other way enable us to escape from or deny our ""lack"": our existential precariousne

Contents:

Hope

Inflation

Diabolization

Hurry

Greed

Mouth and genitals

Habitat

Health

The lived-self

The hidden self.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-31499-8

1-283-05683-6

9786613056832

0-7391-6464-3

OCLC:

715868176