Will Johncock researches social theory, continental philosophy, and Stoic philosophy, with a particular interest in themes concerning time. He is the author of Naturally Late: Synchronization in Socially Constructed Times (2019) which studies how social science and philosophy differentiate natural time from human time structures. He has lectured at UNSW Sydney.

Offers original perspectives on social theory by way of comparison with the thoughts of Stoic philosophers

Crosses disciplinary lines by combining philosophy and sociology

Offers something different for all readers, from experienced scholars to the uninitiated

1. Introduction.- Essential Versus External Social Being.- Part I: Subjectivity.- 2. Who Controls Your Thoughts? Epictetus and Émile Durkheim on Mental Structure.- 3. When Are You Present? Chrysippus and Henri Bergson on Continuous Time.- 4. Why Do You Care About Yourself? The Early Stoics and Herbert Spencer on Self-Preservation.- Part II: Knowledges and Epistemologies.- 5. Do Preconceptions Determine New Knowledge? Epictetus and Max Weber on Truth.- 6. Do People Know Why They Travel? Seneca and Anthony Giddens on Ignorance.- Part III: Physical Conditions.- 7. Is Climate Change Natural? Marcus Aurelius and Barbara Adam on Death.- 8. What Causes Your Behaviors? Zeno and Pierre Bourdieu on the Body.- Part IV: Collective Ethics.- 9. How Do We Regulate Our Affection for Others? Hierocles and Claude Lévi-Strauss on Kinship Circles.- 10. Can Education Be Egalitarian? Musonius Rufus and Julia Kristeva on Gendered Labor.- 11. Is It Natural to Be Social? Marcus Aurelius and George Herbert Mead on Socialization.- Part V: Emotions.- 12. Is Reason External to Passion? Posidonius, Ann Game, and Andrew Metcalfe on Self-Division.- 13. Who Benefits from the Management of Feelings? Epictetus and Arlie Hochschild on Emotional Labor.- 14. How Individual Is Happiness? Chrysippus and Harriet Martineau on the Universal End.