Where is the Good in the World?

Where is the Good in the World?Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how

Embodied in the images of the Hindu soldier and the warrior monk

Lachman and Polner illuminate the often-volatile interplay among elite New York bankers

People and groups have different

While on his deathbed

the volume as a whole demonstrates that not only was language central for Hegel

equality and truth-telling and for their activism on many causes including abolition and opposition to war

driven by a range of contradictory meanings and exploitative practices

through more than 8500 entries found in texts from the Qur’an to today’s newspapers

The chapter surveys advances in dealing with foliar diseases such as leaf blight and root diseases such as Sclerotinia white rot

some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature

The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres

Corless completed postdoctoral work as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California