Screen LibraryThe social pathologies of contemporary civilization
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Ashgate,
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| Publisher Address: | Farnham Burlington, VT |
| Publication Dates: | c2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Classical and contemporary social theory |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 210 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781409445050 (hbk.) 1409445054 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9781409445067 (ebook) 1409445062 (ebook) 9781409472865 (ebk - ePUB) 1409472868 (ebk - ePUB) |
| Index Number: | C91 |
| CLC: | C91-05 |
| Call Number: | C91-05/S678-2 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: pt. I SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: ADDRESSING THE QUESTION -- 1.The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society / Alain Ehrenberg -- 2.The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering / Arpad Szakolczai -- 3.Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin / Bj©ırn Thomassen -- pt. II SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: CONTEMPORARY MALAISES -- 4.The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financia The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis |