Anatomies of modern discontent : visions from the human sciences / Thomas S. Henricks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henricks, Thomas S., author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 8.

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Self.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: Modernity⁰́₉s Challenges to SelfPart I: New Patterns of Social Experience1. Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism2. Emile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection3. Max Weber: Rationalization⁰́₉s Iron Grip4. Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition5. Erich Kahler: Split from Without ⁰́₃ and Within6. Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community7. Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World8. Daniel Bell: Capitalism⁰́₉s Contradictions9. Hannah Arendt: Politics as PossibilityPart II: Culture Transformed10. Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit11. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment12. David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society13. Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations14. Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine15. Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter16. Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom17. Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism18. Juliet Schor: The Work and Spend Cycle Part III: Forms of Inequality18. C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses19. Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control20. Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other21. W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness22. Franz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism23. Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender24. Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain25. Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age26. William Julius Wilson: Dilemmas of the Truly DisadvantagedPart IV: Modern Selves27. Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts28. Erich Fromm: Society Against Self29. Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society30. Norman O. Brown: Embracing Life ⁰́₃ and Death31. Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea ⁰́₃ and Reorientation32. Erving Goffman: Managing Modern Identities33. Arlie Hochschild: Commercialized Feeling34. Anthony Giddens: Challenges to Self in a Runaway World35. Kenneth Gergen: Saturated Selves36. Martin Buber: Personhood as DialogueConclusion: An Anatomy of Modern Discontent

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2022).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Henricks, Thomas S. Anatomies of modern discontent.

ISBN:

9781003082255

1003082254

9781000550917

1000550915

9781000550962

1000550966

Publisher Number:

40031075448

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