From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. This text shows how Freud's writings, and particularly The Interpretation of Dreams, contribute both in their content and in the baroque and dream-like forms in which they are cast to our understanding of the character of modernity. This approach to Freud and to the dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity should be of use to everyone with an interest in the development of modern consciousness.
From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. This text shows how Freu...
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has played an important part in human self-understanding throughout the development of Western society. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its most pervasive and significant experience.
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has p...
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has played an important part in human self-understanding throughout the development of Western society. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its most pervasive and significant experience.
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has p...
'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms used routinely throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday life and experience. Yet these terms are seldom defined or used with any precision, and scant regard is paid to the historical and cultural context in which they arose or to which they are applied.
This innovative book provides fresh historical insights in terms of the emergence, development, and interrelationship of specific and varied notions of identity and selfhood, and outlines a new sociological framework for...
'Identity' and 'selfhood' are terms used routinely throughout the human sciences that seek to analyze and describe the character of everyday lif...
This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century. The social character of phenomenology is explored in its relation to the concern in twentieth century sociology with questions of modern experience. Phenomenology and sociology come together as 'ethnographies of the present'. As such, they break free of the self-imposed limitations of each to establish a new, critical understanding of contemporary life. By reading phenomenology sociologically and sociology...
This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in th...
This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century. The social character of phenomenology is explored in its relation to the concern in twentieth century sociology with questions of modern experience. Phenomenology and sociology come together as 'ethnographies of the present'. As such, they break free of the self-imposed limitations of each to establish a new, critical understanding of contemporary life. By reading phenomenology sociologically and sociology...
This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in th...
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality--modern society, modern life, modern times, modern art, modern science, modern music, the modern world--has been cited as a part of modernity's distinctive and all-embracing presence. But what is the exact nature of the reality to which the term modern refers? Has not such a promiscuous, ill-defined concept come to obscure and confuse rather than clarify a genuine understanding of our...
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. E...
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality--modern society, modern life, modern times, modern art, modern science, modern music, the modern world--has been cited as a part of modernity's distinctive and all-embracing presence. But what is the exact nature of the reality to which the term modern refers? Has not such a promiscuous, ill-defined concept come to obscure and confuse rather than clarify a genuine understanding of our...
Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. E...
