To Flourish or Destruct: A Personalist Theory of Human Goods, Motivations, Failure, and Evil

by Christian Smith

Book Overview

In his 2010 book What Is a Person?, Christian Smith argued that sociology had for too long neglected this fundamental question. Prevailing social theories, he wrote, do not adequately "capture our deep subjective experience as persons, crucial dimensions of the richness of our own lived lives, what thinkers in previous ages might have called our 'souls' or 'hearts.'" Building on Smith's previous work, To Flourish or Destruct examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675992X
• ISBN13: 9780226759920
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"