Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction David Henig and Anna Strhan
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World-yet Joel Robbins
Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere Michael Lambek
Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice Owen Abbott
Chapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It Iain Wilkinson
Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Part I: Commentary Steven Lukes
Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life
Chapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church Gordon Lynch
Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China Kimberly Chong
Chapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London Anna Strhan
Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies Rachael Shillitoe
Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography Ruth Sheldon
Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina David Henig
Part II: Commentary Maeve Cooke
Index