Ethical Humans

The book questions how philosophy and social theory can help us to engage the everyday moral realities of living, working, loving and dying in new capitalism. It queries post-structuralist traditions, that for all their insights into the fragmentation of identities, often sustain a distinction between nature and culture.

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor Emeritus in Social Theory at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He has worked and published across the boundaries of social theory and philosophy, including works such as Urban Fears and Global Terrors: Citizenship, Multiculture and Belongings after 7/7, Remembering Diana: Cultural Memory and the Reinvention of Authority and, most recently, Remembering 9/11: Terror, Trauma and Social Theory and Making Sense of Brexit: Democracy, Europe and Uncertain Futures.

1. Histories, Memories and Truthfulness 2. Philosophy, Politics and Everyday Life 3. Modernities, Differences and Becoming Human 4. Generations, Genealogies and Authentic Subjects 5. New Capitalism, Masculinities, Work and Character 6. Neoliberalism, Work, Technologies and Ethics 7. Modernities, Masculinities, Science and Nature 8. Modernity, Bodies, Politics and Emotional Lives 9. Histories, Traumas, Truths and Decolonisings 10. Freedom, Politics, Theologies, Ecologies and Ethics