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).

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Good between Philosophy and Social Theory: An Introduction

David Henig and Anna Strhan



Part I: Theoretical Perspectives



Chapter 1. Where is the Good in the World?

Joel Robbins



Chapter 2. Nowhere and Everywhere

Michael Lambek



Chapter 3. Between Durkheim and Bauman: A Relational Sociology of Morality in Practice

Owen Abbott



Chapter 4. For the Agony of ‘the Good’ and of the Moral Courage to Do It

Iain Wilkinson



Chapter 5. Thinking Time, Ethics and Generations: An Auto-Ethnographic Essay on the Good between Philosophy and Social Theory

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler



Part I: Commentary

Steven Lukes



Part II:Approaching the Good in Everyday Life



Chapter 6. ‘To See a Sinner Repent is a Joyful Thing’: Moral Cultures and the Sexual Abuse of Children in the Christian Church

Gordon Lynch



Chapter 7. Making the Good Corporate Citizen: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ethical Projects of Management Consultancy in Contemporary China

Kimberly Chong



Chapter 8. ‘God isn’t a Communist’: Conservative Evangelicals, Money and Morality in London

Anna Strhan



Chapter 9. Doing Good: Cultivating Children’s Ethical Sensibilities in School Assemblies

Rachael Shillitoe



Chapter 10. Locating an Elusive Ethics: Surface and Depth in a Jewish Ethnography

Ruth Sheldon



Chapter 11. Radical Hope as a Practice of Possibilities: On the Fragility of Goodness and Struggles for Justice in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

David Henig



Part II: Commentary

Maeve Cooke



Index