Sociological trespasses interrogating sin and flesh
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 o...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798310606719 |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781283056830 9786613056832 9780739164648 |
