What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

by Christian Smith

Book Overview

What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society.

Finding much current thinking on personhood to be confusing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226765946
• ISBN13: 9780226765945
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"