ISBN:
9781317015635
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (198 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Keohane, Kieran The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Sociology-Philosophy
;
Sociology-Psychological aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Pathology-Social aspects
;
Diseases-Social aspects
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Diseases-Social aspects
;
Pathology-Social aspects
;
Sociology-Philosophy
;
Sociology-Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: ADDRESSING THE QUESTION -- 1 The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society -- 2 The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering -- 3 Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin -- PART II SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: CONTEMPORARY MALAISES -- 4 The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financialization as Social Pathogenesis -- 5 Depression: Resisting Ultra-liberalism? -- 6 The Pathologization of Morality -- 7 The Multiple Self: A Social Pathology? -- 8 Possible Explanations for Increasing Antidepressant Treatment in Modern Society -- PART III SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: BIOPOWER, SUBJECTIFICATION AND CIVILIZATION -- 9 Does Society Still Matter? Mental Health and Illness and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century -- 10 Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement -- 11 Schismogenesis, Liminality and Public Health
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