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Sociological trespasses : interrogating sin and flesh /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739164648 0739164643 1283056836 9781283056830 9786613056832 6613056839 |