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Sociological Trespasses
James Aho
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Hardback. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. They are also the subject matter of this book. Here, 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"-say, a nation, an enemy, time, money, the environment, a medical cure, a bodily orifice (the mouth or genitals), a significant individual, or an anonymous public, etc.-the advancement of, accumulation of, defeat of, ... Read more
Racism, collective violence, sickness, environmental catastrophe, body obsession, greed, and accelerated life concern everyone. They are also the subject matter of this book. Here, 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"-say, a nation, an enemy, time, money, the environment, a medical cure, a bodily orifice (the mouth or genitals), a significant individual, or an anonymous public, etc.-the advancement of, accumulation of, defeat of, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739164624
SKU
V9780739164624
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About James Aho
James Aho is professor emeritus of sociology at Idaho State University. His two most recent books are Body Matters: A phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness (Lexington Books, 2008), co-authored with Kevin Aho, and Confession and Bookkeeping (SUNY Press, 2005).
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