Where is the Good in the World?

David Henig is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. He is the author of Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (Illinois UP, 2020) and the co-editor of Economies of Favour After Socialism (OUP, 2017).

“This is a highly commendable piece of literature that will surely enrich the understanding of the intersection of social theory and philosophy as it relates to the good, and its interdisciplinary approach makes a complex topic both approachable and applicable for a diverse readership.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This is a stimulating collection that generatively engages an emerging area across multiple disciplines. The volume's structure is tightly conceptualized, and the essays often provocative. The volume is well poised to earn a committed readership.” • James Bielo, Miami University

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An IntroductionDavid Henig and Anna StrhanPart I: Theoretical PerspectivesChapter 1. Where is the Good in the World?Joel RobbinsChapter 2. Nowhere and EverywhereMichael LambekChapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in PracticeOwen AbbottChapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do ItIain WilkinsonChapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social TheoryVictor Jeleniewski SeidlerPart I: CommentarySteven LukesPart II:Approaching the Good in Everyday LifeChapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian ChurchGordon LynchChapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary ChinaKimberly ChongChapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in LondonAnna StrhanChapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School AssembliesRachael ShillitoeChapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish EthnographyRuth SheldonChapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-HerzegovinaDavid HenigPart II: CommentaryMaeve CookeIndex