Empty Suffering

ISBN-13: 9781032053899 / Miękka / 2023 / 212 str.

Hungary) Sik Budapest Domonkos (Eoetvoes Lorand University

Opis

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book offers an analysis of contemporary forms of suffering, including depression, anxiety, chronic pain and addiction, and the treatments commonly applied to them, considering whether certain treatments and therapies are contributory factors to the overall problem of contemporary suffering.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Genealogies of Late Modern Suffering  1. From Naturalized Suffering to Futile Ownership – A Genealogy of Depressed Lifeworld  2. The Social Constituents of Fear – A Phenomenology of Negative Integration  3. Power from Indirect Pain – A Historical Phenomenology of Medical Pain Management  Part 2: Networks of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction  4. Depression as Social Suffering – Distortions of Communicative and Competitive Interactions  5. Networks of Anxiety – From the Distortions of Late Modern Societies to the Social Components of Anxiety  6. Actor-Networks of Addiction – From Reification to the Emergence of a Late Modern Hybrid Subjectivity  Part 3: Beyond Suffering – Spontaneous and Hybrid Strategies Dealing with Late Modern Social Suffering  7. From the Contingencies of Biomedicine to Secular Ritual Healing – An Online Ethnography of Depression Forums  8. Beyond Organic Solidarity – From the Paradoxes of Late Modern Welfare State to the Moral Challenges of Crisis Management  9. Ways Out from Suffering – On Quasi-Therapeutic Networks

O autorze

Domonkos Sik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and alumni of CEU-IAS, Budapest-Vienna. He is the author of several monographs in critical theory, including Radicalism and Indifference.