{"product_id":"diagnosing-social-pathology-rousseau-hegel-marx-and-durkheim-paperback-softback-9781009235006","title":"Diagnosing Social Pathology; Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009235006","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDiagnosing Social Pathology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplains what is at stake in calling societies 'ill' and the meanings and consequences of characterizing social problems as illnesses.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrederick Neuhouser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009235006, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 10 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e388 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 2.1 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This highly theoretical work will interest students and scholars of social philosophy, social theory, and the history of social thought. … Highly recommended.' A. J. Trevino, Choice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCan a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' – deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Can Societies Be Ill?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Society as Organism?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marx: Pathologies of Capitalist Society\u003cbr\u003e 4. Marx: Labor in Spiritual Life and Social Pathology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Plato: Human Society as Organism\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rousseau: Human Society as Artificial\u003cbr\u003e 7. Durkheim's Predecessors: Comte and Spencer\u003cbr\u003e 8. Durkheim: Functionalism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Durkheim: Solidarity, Moral Facts, and Social Pathology\u003cbr\u003e 10. Durkheim: A Science of Morality\u003cbr\u003e 11. Hegelian Social Ontology I: Objective Spirit\u003cbr\u003e 12. Hegelian Social Ontology II: The Living Good\u003cbr\u003e 13. Hegelian Social Pathology\u003cbr\u003e 14. Conclusion: On Social Ontology.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\u003c\/a\u003e], Social theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20theory%20%5BJHBA%5D%22\"\u003eJHBA\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Social \u0026amp; political philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; political philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20political%20philosophy%20%5BHPS%5D%22\"\u003eHPS\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52463012151576,"sku":"9781009235006","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009235006i.jpg?v=1785545143","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/diagnosing-social-pathology-rousseau-hegel-marx-and-durkheim-paperback-softback-9781009235006","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}