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Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking - Yarrow, Thomas (Editor), and Candea, Matei (Editor), and Trundle, Catherine (Editor)
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This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of engagement, this book challenges us to re-think the relational basis of social theory. In so, doing it brings to light the productive aspects of disconnection, distance and detachment. Rather than treating detachment simply as the moral inversion of compassion and engagement, the volume brings ...

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Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking 2019, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9781526133861

Paperback

Detachment: Essays on the Limits of Relational Thinking 2015, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719096853

Hardcover