Sociological trespasses : interrogating sin and flesh / James Aho.

By:

Aho, James A, 1942-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780739164648
0739164643
1283056836
9781283056830
9786613056832
6613056839

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sociological trespasses.DDC classification:

301 22

LOC classification:

BF575.H6 A36 2011eb

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Contents:

Hope -- Inflation -- Diabolization -- Hurry -- Greed -- Mouth and genitals -- Habitat -- Health -- The lived-self -- The hidden self.

Summary: 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 technicalexperts. 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, theenvironment, a medical cure, a bodily orifice (the mouth or genitals), a significant individ

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-154) and index.

Hope -- Inflation -- Diabolization -- Hurry -- Greed -- Mouth and genitals -- Habitat -- Health -- The lived-self -- The hidden self.

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 technicalexperts. 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, theenvironment, a medical cure, a bodily orifice (the mouth or genitals), a significant individ