Thinking About Social Life

This book is a work of philosophy concerning how we should think about social life. Whereas social science has traditionally been a study of social physics (a study of material individuals that interact in time and space) it must become a study of social life (a study of the vital forms and feelings of an inherently social species).

Preface

v

Acknowledgements

vii

Introduction

1

(14)

In the Image of a Tree

A Philosophical Challenge

Further Preliminaries

A Look Ahead

Love

15

(20)

Poetry

Puzzles

Love a Phase of Social Life

Love a Moment of Social Life

Play

35

(18)

Innocence Lost

Puzzles

Play a Phase of Social Life

Play a Moment of Social Life

Individuation

53

(14)

Images

Puzzles

Individuation a Phase of Social Life

Individuation a Moment of Social Life

A Concept of Social Life

67

(28)

Images

Lives and Feelings

Form Sometimes Felt

Form Before and Beyond Structure

Summary

Individual and Society

95

(16)

The Individual and Society Problem

Unpacking the Problem

The Problem in New Light

Social Life in the Balance

A Final Note

Mind and Body

111

(16)

The Mind and Body Problem

Unpacking the Problem

The Problem in New Light

Social Life in the Balance

A Final Note

Conclusion

127

(14)

Thinking about Social Life

Whither Individuals?

Art and Living Explanation

Living for the Future

In the Image of a Tree

Notes

141

(14)

Bibliography

155

(8)

About the Author

163

(2)

Index

165

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Thinking About Social Life

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