ISBN:
0415888786
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9780415888783
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9781136618345
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 193 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Parallel Title:
Print version Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society
DDC:
302.5/44
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern society - those fostered by commercial interests, and those maintained by individuals and groups as their form of resisting alienation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Alienation and theCarnivalization of Society; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Part I : Alienation in ModernMass SocietyIts Consequences in ProducingPost-Modernity That Is IncreasinglySimilar to Pre-Modernity; 1. The Rise of the Nazis as an Example of Sadistic Carnival; 2. Democracy and the Dilemmas of Nation-Building; 3. The Gap between the Ideal and the Real in Politics; 4 The Increasing Similarities between Post-Modernity and Pre-Modernity; Part II : The Carnivalization of Society; 5. Alienation, Entrapment, and Inauthenticity; 6. Carnivalization and Freedom
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Theorizing Carnival8. Authoritarianism and Carnivalization in the 2008 Presidential Election and the Return of Right-Wing Populism; 9. The Dialectics of Carnival; Part III : Conclusion; Conclusion; Contributors; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Available via World Wide Web
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