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Stoic Philosophy and Social Theory
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Stoic Philosophy and Social Theory [electronic resource] / by Will Johncock.
ISBN
9783030431532
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XI, 352 p.)
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Summary
This book puts recently re-popularized ancient Stoic philosophy in discussion with modern social theory and sociology to consider the relationship between an individual and their environment. Thirteen comparative pairings including Epictetus and Émile Durkheim, Zeno and Pierre Bourdieu, and Marcus Aurelius and George Herbert Mead explore how to position individualism within our socialized existence. Will Johncock believes that by integrating modern perspectives with ancient Stoic philosophies we can question how internally separate from our social environment we ever are. This tandem analysis identifies new orientations for established ideas in Stoicism and social theory about the mind, being present, self-preservation, knowledge, travel, climate change, the body, kinship, gender, education, and emotions.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 04, 2020
Contents
1. Introduction
Essential Versus External Social Being
Part I: Subjectivity
2. Who Controls Your Thoughts? Epictetus and Émile Durkheim on Mental Structure
3. When Are You Present? Chrysippus and Henri Bergson on Continuous Time
4. Why Do You Care About Yourself? The Early Stoics and Herbert Spencer on Self-Preservation
Part II: Knowledges and Epistemologies
5. Do Preconceptions Determine New Knowledge? Epictetus and Max Weber on Truth
6. Do People Know Why They Travel? Seneca and Anthony Giddens on Ignorance
Part III: Physical Conditions
7. Is Climate Change Natural? Marcus Aurelius and Barbara Adam on Death
8. What Causes Your Behaviors? Zeno and Pierre Bourdieu on the Body
Part IV: Collective Ethics
9. How Do We Regulate Our Affection for Others? Hierocles and Claude Lévi-Strauss on Kinship Circles
10. Can Education Be Egalitarian? Musonius Rufus and Julia Kristeva on Gendered Labor
11. Is It Natural to Be Social? Marcus Aurelius and George Herbert Mead on Socialization
Part V: Emotions
12. Is Reason External to Passion? Posidonius, Ann Game, and Andrew Metcalfe on Self-Division
13. Who Benefits from the Management of Feelings? Epictetus and Arlie Hochschild on Emotional Labor
14. How Individual Is Happiness? Chrysippus and Harriet Martineau on the Universal End.
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