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DIAGNOSING SOCIAL PATHOLOGY
Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so,
how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking
book, Frederick Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social
pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as “ill,”
or “sick,” and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social
problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel,
Marx, and Durkheim – four key philosophers who are seldom taken
to constitute a “tradition” – deploy the idea of social pathology in
comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal
illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation,
anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and
compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the
importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views
of society.
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Preface page ix
Note on Citations xx
Bibliography 351
Index 360
vii
When I began this project ten years ago, my plan was straightforward –
and, as I now see, naive: I wanted to demonstrate the indispensability of the
concept of social pathology for normative social philosophy and, by draw-
ing mostly on resources from European thinkers from Rousseau onward,
to articulate more precisely than had been done before how illness in the
domain of the social ought to be conceived. My initial strategy for defend-
ing this concept was to consult contemporary philosophy of biology and
medicine with the aim of finding a generally accepted account of sickness
and health in biological organisms that would serve as the basis for arguing
that analogous features of social life justified applying the concepts of health
and illness to social phenomena. Two discoveries led me to revise my plan.
The first was that contemporary philosophy of biology and medicine, no
less discordant than other fields of philosophy, offered no uncontroversial
account of health or illness that I could simply avail myself of in defending
the idea of pathology in the social domain. Moreover, the controversies only
increased when turning from purely physiological conceptions of health,
applicable to nonhuman organisms, to conceptions of health appropriate
to human beings. It is not only that in the human realm a new category
appears – that of mental health – but also, and more interestingly, that, in
contrast to the case of veterinary medicine, no full account of bodily health
for humans can be given that abstracts from what I call (and explain below)
the “spiritual” aspects of human beings. Although the account of social
pathology I provide in this book is informed by ideas deriving from the
philosophy of biology and medicine, I have had to decide for myself which
aspects of the views on offer there belong to the best account of illness in
human beings (and other animals) and shed the most light on what illness
in the social domain might consist in.
The second discovery that led me to change my plan for this book was that,
as I soon found when presenting my ideas in academic contexts – among
contemporary philosophers, political theorists, and sociologists – resistance
ix
4 The metaphor of social illness is so widespread that one can find it in nearly every issue of a serious
newspaper or treatise devoted to social issues. Two examples are Krugman (2019) and Mau (2019),
which analyzes the problems of contemporary eastern Germany using the analogy of a bone fracture.
5 A caveat: social ontology as pursued here is a less abstract project than many contemporary analytic
philosophers take it to be, e.g., Gilbert (1989), Tuomela (2013), and Searle (1995). A good discussion
of analytical social ontology can be found in Stahl 2013: ch. 4. My project is continuous with but still
broader than the accounts of social reality offered by Searle (1995 and 2010) and Descombes (2014).
Anthony Giddens uses the term in roughly the sense in which I use it (Giddens 1984: xx).
Although the chapters of this book are devoted mostly to specific think-
ers, its structure is unusual and calls for explanation. Most obviously, I
do not discuss the figures I treat in chronological order. Instead, chapters
are arranged conceptually, beginning with less complex conceptions of
social pathology and social ontology and proceeding to increasingly richer
accounts of what human societies are and of the illnesses to which they
are susceptible. As readers will quickly discover, this scheme yields only
a loose form of organization. For the most part, I do not offer a develop-
mental argument that proceeds by revealing defects in the theories covered
in earlier chapters and showing them to be remedied by the theories that
come after them. I in no way want to suggest that the specific pathologies
discussed in earlier chapters are less deserving of our attention than those
examined later. Still, the general account of society and social pathology
found in the final three chapters is more sophisticated and theoretically
adequate than those treated earlier. In this sense, then, Hegel is the hero of
this book, although I do not take this to mean that Hegelians have noth-
ing to learn from Marx, for example, the first figure discussed in detail.
Perhaps I am trying to say that much of what we can learn from Marx can
be integrated into Hegel’s framework, whereas important possibilities for
pathology rendered visible by Hegel would go undetected if we restricted
ourselves to Marx’s understanding of (capitalist) society. It follows that my
approach here, like that of my past work, is more syncretic and concilia-
tory than many readers find appropriate. I will not defend this approach
beyond saying that, as with most ways of doing things, it has its advantages
and disadvantages. I hope that some of those advantages come across to
readers of this book despite its less than perfect structure.
The initial two chapters of this book are introductory. The first
explores the concept of social pathology in general, distinguishing five
interpretations of that idea from the conception of social illness I adopt
here. It also discusses various advantages and disadvantages of the con-
cept of social pathology, especially the circumstance that diagnosing
a society as ill allows one to thematize defects in social life that the
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