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Aho, James Alfred, 1942-
The things of the world : a social phenomenology / James A. Aho.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN 0-275-96247-4 (alk. paper).-ISBN 0-275-96248-2 (pbk. :
alk. paper)

1. Phenomenological sociology. 2. Sociology -- Philosophy.
3. Self. I. Title.
HM24.A453 1998
301 -- dc2l 98-23566

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Copyright © 1998 by James A. Aho

All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-23566
ISBN: 0-275-96247-4
0-275-96248-2(pbk.)

First published in 1998

Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881
An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

Printed in the United States of America

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The paper used in this book complies with the
Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National
Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984).

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Copyright Acknowledgments

The author and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission for use of the follow-
ing material:

Excerpts from "The Apocalypse of Modernity" by James Aho, in Millennium,
Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements, ed. Thomas Robbins
and Susan Palmer ( New York: Routledge, 1997).

Excerpts from "A Phenomenology of the Enemy" in This Thing of Darkness: A
Sociology of the Enemy by James Aho ( Seattle: University of Washington Press,
1994).

Excerpts from "The Recent Ethnogenesis of 'White Man'" by James Aho. Left
Bank 5 ( December 1993): 55 - 64.

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