Anxiety, modern society, and the critical method : toward a theory and practice of critical socioanalysis /

"Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method interrogates the historical intersections of political economy, technology, and anxiety. By analyzing and building upon the tools developed by critical theorists to diagnose the symptoms of modern life-such as alienation, anomie, the Protestant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crombez, Joel Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021.
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 182.
Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441316.
Temas:
Since 1950
Critical theory > Social aspects.
Anxiety > Social aspects.
Technology > Social aspects.
Civilization, Modern > 1950-
Théorie critique > Aspect social.
Civilisation > 1950-
Anxiety > Social aspects
Civilization, Modern
Technology > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART 1: FROM TRADITIONAL TO MODERN SOCIETY: THE CRITICAL METHOD OF EARLY MODERN SOCIAL THOUGHT
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I: Scenic Landscape I
  • Traditional Life and the Totalizing Logic of Christianity
  • A Revolution in Space and of the Mind
  • Enlightenment and the Birth of Modernity
  • Chapter II: Critical Methods
  • From Philosophy to Social Theory: (Hegel, Feuerbach and) Marx's Critical Method and the Totalizing Logic of Capital
  • The Individual, the Social, and the Knot: Toward the Durkheimian Symptom of Anomie
  • Totalizing the Mind and Spirit: Weber and the Unholy Union of Religion and Capital
  • From Psychoanalysis to Socioanalysis: Anxiety, Repression, and Talk Therapy in Freud
  • Conclusion
  • PART 2: TECHNOLOGY, MODERN WARS, AND THE RISE OF CONSUMER CULTURE: THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL REVISITS THE CRITICAL METHOD
  • Introduction
  • Chapter III: Scenic Landscape II
  • The Totalizing Logic of Capital Comes of Age: The Path to Technological Embeddedness and Mass Society
  • The Darker Side of Modernity: World War
  • Chapter IV: Critical Methods II
  • The Psychosocial Origins of the Frankfurt School
  • From the Critical Method to Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics
  • A Lesson for Socioanalysis: Anxiety and the Social Vicissitudes of Technology and War in Mass Society
  • Conclusion
  • PART 3: ANXIETY-DREAMS OF POSTHUMAN FUTURES: SORTING THROUGH THE DISCOURSES OF 21ST CENTURY LIFE
  • Introduction
  • Chapter V: Scenic Landscape III
  • The Postmodern Rupture in Modern Society
  • We Are All Cyborgs Now: Life in the Mass
  • The Coming Tide: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Colonization
  • Chapter VI: Critical Methods III
  • Critical Socioanalysis: Setting Up
  • Discourses of the Psyche and the Self: A Lacanian Framework
  • The Other Side of Socioanalysis: A Guide for Talk Therapy
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX.

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