Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
124
Utgivningsdatum
2017-03-06
Förlag
Routledge
Medarbetare
Bergh, Bert Van Den
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 10 mm
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359 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138213937

Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimers Disease

av Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen, Bert Van Den Bergh
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This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimers are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.
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'This book is a much welcome contribution to the study of contemporary social pathologies. Based on analyses of late modern subjectivity, the authors present original and thought-provoking cultural readings of anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease. The book will challenge every reader to think anew about these phenomena.' - Svend Brinkmann, University of Aalborg, Denmark 'This fantastic collections of essays takes seriously Freud's observation that malaise in civilization affects malaise of the individuals. The authors show how neoliberal society today contributes to people's psychological and physical suffering. In a groundbreaking way, they link the rise of anxiety, depression and Alzheimer's disease to social changes that we are experiencing in today's capitalism. For anyone wanting to understand why people are suffering so much in the developed world, these essays are essential read!' - Renata Salecl, Birkbeck, University of London, U.K

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Kieran Keohane, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology and Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland. Anders Petersen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Bert van den Bergh, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Philosophy of Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Notes on contributors Preface 1. Introduction to a Series 2. Modern Subjectivity / Postmodern Subjectivity (Dany-Robert Dufour) 3. Return to an Age of Anxiety The Embedding of a Late Modern Social Pathology 4. Sadean Depression and the Work of Culture 5. Alzheimers Disease: a Social Pathology of Contemporary Civilization 6. A Research Prospective Index

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