Social Ghosts and the Dead of World History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book looks at the phantasms and spirits of classical social science and philosophy, including Hegel’s ‘World-Spirit’, Weber’s ‘Verstehen’ and Marx’s phantasms and the ‘dead of world history’, exploring the relationships and interactions between those spirits and materiality across five broad themes. Building on the author’s previous work on the sociology of haunted houses and landscapes, it examines the body and the individual as the locus of haunting. The book will appeal to academics in p...