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02030aam a2200325 i 4500 001 EC3E4A7E1BC411EE999F3EC24CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230706011753 008 220224t20232023enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022009563 020 $a 1009235036 020 $a 9781009235037 035 $a (OCoLC)1300756201 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d UKOBU $d CDX $d YDX $d GZN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HN18 N478 2023 100 1 $a Neuhouser, Frederick, $e author. 245 10 $a Diagnosing social pathology : $b Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim / $c Frederick Neuhouser. 246 30 $a Social pathology 264 1 $a Cambridge ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2023. 300 $a xxii, 364 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-359) and index. 520 $a "Can 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"--Publisher's website. 650 0 $a Social problems. 650 0 $a Sociology $x Philosophy. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781009235044 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907010554.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EC3E4A7E1BC411EE999F3EC24CECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search