UID:
almahu_9949383411702882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781315098906
,
1315098903
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9781351581509
,
1351581503
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9781351581516
,
1351581511
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9781351581493
,
135158149X
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 145
Content:
"Nothing really matters. All the things that we do not do, have or become in our lives can be important in shaping self-identity. From jobs turned down to great loves lost, secrets kept and truths untold, people missed and souls unborn, we understand ourselves through other, unlived lives that are imaginatively possible. This book explores the realm of negative social phenomena - no-things, no-bodies, non-events and no-where places - that lies behind the mirror of experience. Taking a symbolic interactionist perspective, the author argues that these objects are socially produced, emerging from and negotiated through our relationships with others. Nothing is interactively accomplished in two ways, through social acts of commission and omission. Existentialism and phenomenology encourage us to understand more deeply the subjective experience of nothing; this can be pursued through conscious meaning-making and reflexive self-awareness. The Social Life of Nothing is a thought-provoking book that will appeal to scholars across the social sciences, arts and humanities, but its message also resonates with the interested general reader"--
Note:
Being through nothingness -- Lost opportunities -- Silence and quietness -- Invisibility and absence -- Holes, gaps and emptiness -- Stillness, rest and inactivity.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The social life of nothing Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138297975
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9781315098906
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315098906
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