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The Material City: Bodies, Minds, and the In-Between
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The Dying Body as a Lived Experience. London: Routledge Press
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The Grey Zone of Health and Illness. Bristol: Intellect Press
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The Imaginative Structure of the City. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press
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Socrates: The Original and its Images. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Theorizing. London: Heinemans

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Somebody Nobody Anybody: When the Cows Come Home. Quattro Books, Inc.

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Self Reflection in the Human Sciences, with Michael Brown, Fred Dallmayr, Maurice Roche, and Kurt Wolff. Edited by Max Van Manen.

Edmonton: University of Alberta Press 

Self-Reflection in the Arts and Sciences, with Peter McHugh. Atlantic Highlands,

NJ: Humanities Press 

On the Beginning of Social Inquiry, with Peter McHugh, Stanley Raffel, and Daniel Foss.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

CO-EDITED

The Ethics of Care: Moral Knowledge, Communication and the Art of Care-Giving. Co-Edited with Professor Stuart Murray. London: Ashgate Press

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES | REFEREED, PEER REVIEWED

2023  "Imagination as Visualization" in Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture, Martin Hand and Barry Sandywell, eds. UK: Bloomsbury Press.


2019  "Delicacy, Desire, and Dream in the Work of Peter McHugh: Toward a Sociology of Jouissance," in Redefining the Situation: The Writings of Peter McHugh: Kieran Bonner and Stanley Raffel, eds. Montreal & Kingston, London. Chicago, 243-257.


2016  "On the Unending Beginning of Social Inquiry" in The Reflexive Initiative in Social Inquiry: On the grounds and prospects of analytic theorizing, Stanley Rafflel and Barry Sandywell, eds. New York and London." Routledge Press, 263-288.

2015  “The Border between Intimacy and Anonymity in Innocuous Action: The Greeting as a Social Form.” Journal of Classical Sociology. 16(1): 69-83.

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2014  “Durkheim's Ruse: The Concept as a Seduction.” The Canadian Journal of Sociology.

39(4): 367- 394.

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2014  “Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life. ”Journal of Classical Sociology, 15(1): 24-38.

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2014  “Guide(s) for the Perplexed: Science and Literature as Equipment for Living." 

Philosophy and Rhetoric. 48(1): 54-72.

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2014  “The Ordeal of Solitude." History of Human Sciences. 27(1): 118-132.

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2014  “Age as a Social Form: The Phenomenology of the Passage." Journal of Medical Humanities. 35(1): 19-36.

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2014  “Motive, Desire, Drive: The Discourse of Force." Compasso: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. 4(2): 5-18.

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2012  “The Enigma of the Brain and its Place as Cause, Character, and Pretext in the Imaginary of Dementia.” History of the Human Sciences. 25(4): 108-124.

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2010  “Peter McHugh 1929-2010: The Unique Gesture.” Human Studies. 33: 231-252.

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ACADEMIA LETTERS

These contributions are short pieces in a series designed by Academia Letters for rapid circulation.

Spirit as the Spice of Life
Can Plato’s Vision of Dialogue Save Us from the Algorithmic Imaginary?

CULTURE OF CITIES

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