phenomenological
investigations

Home > People > Profile

Margaret Gilbert

2 Publications

Joint commitment

Margaret Gilbert

Oxford University Press - New York City

2014

This book comprises eighteen wide-ranging essays that share a common theme: the centrality of joint commitment to human life, both private and public. After an opening chapter that introduces joint commitment and the themes of the book, it is divided into four sections: shared agency; collective attitudes; mutual recognition, promises, and love; and political life.

On social facts

Margaret Gilbert

Routledge - London

1989

From the works of Durkheim and Simmel, Margaret Gilbert develops a theory of social phenomena that lies at the heart of all human interaction. This is a serious and highly original work, breaking new ground in sociological thought.

2 Publications