Anatomies of Modern Discontent: Visions from the Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780367535032 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 232 str.

USA) Henricks Thomas S. (Elon University

Opis

This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of forty figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences of discontent in modern societies, exploring the important social and cultural conditions associated with modernity and ultimately characterising it as a ‘differentiated complaint’.

Spis treści

Introduction: Modernity’s Challenges to Self  Part I: New Patterns of Social Experience  1. Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism  2. Emile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection  3. Max Weber: Rationalization’s Iron Grip  4. Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition  5. Erich Kahler: Split from Without – and Within  6. Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community  7. Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World  8. Daniel Bell: Capitalism’s Contradictions  9. Hannah Arendt: Politics as Possibility  Part II: Culture Transformed  10. Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit  11. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment  12. David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society  13. Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations  14. Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine  15. Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter  16. Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom  17. Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism  18. Juliet Schor: The Work and Spend Cycle  Part III: Forms of Inequality  18. C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses  19. Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control  20. Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other  21. W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness  22. Franz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism  23. Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender  24. Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain  25. Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age  26. William Julius Wilson: Dilemmas of the Truly Disadvantaged  Part IV: Modern Selves  27. Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts  28. Erich Fromm: Society Against Self  29. Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society  30. Norman O. Brown: Embracing Life – and Death  31. Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea – and Reorientation  32. Erving Goffman: Managing Modern Identities  33. Arlie Hochschild: Commercialized Feeling  34. Anthony Giddens: Challenges to Self in a Runaway World  35. Kenneth Gergen: Saturated Selves  36. Martin Buber: Personhood as Dialogue  Conclusion: An Anatomy of Modern Discontent