Lost in Perfection
Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche
Herausgeber: King, Vera; Rosa, Hartmut; Gerisch, Benigna
Lost in Perfection
Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche
Herausgeber: King, Vera; Rosa, Hartmut; Gerisch, Benigna
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This volume examines the question of how the incessant demand for improved performance and efficiency, the pursuit of self-improvement and everyday multitasking affect not only relationships with others, but also with body and self.
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This volume examines the question of how the incessant demand for improved performance and efficiency, the pursuit of self-improvement and everyday multitasking affect not only relationships with others, but also with body and self.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 198
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 340g
- ISBN-13: 9780367897260
- ISBN-10: 0367897261
- Artikelnr.: 58413410
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 198
- Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
- Gewicht: 340g
- ISBN-13: 9780367897260
- ISBN-10: 0367897261
- Artikelnr.: 58413410
Vera King is Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Goethe University and Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M., Germany. Benigna Gerisch is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Intervention and Psychodynamic Counselling at International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany. She trained as a psychoanalyst and is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA). Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at Jena University and Director of the Max-Weber-Center, Germany. He is the author of Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity.
Introduction: 'Lost in Perfection' - Ideals and Performances (Vera King,
Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Part I: Optimisation in Economy and Working Life
1. Optimisation in Context of Financialisation (Eve Chiapello)
2. The Subject in the Marketplace, the Subject as a Marketplace (Ulrich
Bröckling)
3. The Missing Link: How Organisations Bridge the Gap between Dynamic
Stabilisation and Individual Optimisation (Hartmut Rosa, Diana Lindner,
Jörg Oberthür)
Part II: Changes in Intersubjectivity - Pathologies of the Social
4. "Fitter, Happier, More Productive": Optimising Time with Technology (
Judy Wajcman)
5. Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct - Transformations in Relations to
the Self and to Others, especially in Generational Care (Vera King, Julia
Schreiber, Niels Uhlendorf, Benigna Gerisch)
6. The Two Meanings of the Notion of Social Pathology: Toward an
Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society (Alain Ehrenberg)
Part III: The Optimised Self
7. The Authoritarian Dimension in Digital Self-Tracking - Containment,
Commodification, Subjugation (Steffen Krüger)
8. The Truth of Fear (Heinz Bude)
9. Perfection, Sublimation and Idealisation (Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor)
10. A Pathological Organization Based on a Longing for Perfection (Heinz
Weiß, Heinrich Merkt)
Part IV: Optimisation of the Body
11. Optimisation by Knife: On Types of Biographical Appropriation of
Aesthetic Surgery in Late Modernity (Benigna Gerisch, Benedikt Salfeld,
Christiane Beerbom, Katarina Busch, Vera King)
12. Fighting Death with Aesthetic Medicine. The Rise of Minimal Invasive
Procedures in Times of Self-Optimisation (Ada Borkenhagen)
13. Rationalising Life by Means of Self-Optimisation. The
Obsessive-Compulsive Excess of Gustav Großmann. A Striking Example for the
Rationalistic Bookkeeper-Personality (Jürgen Straub)
Conclusions (Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Index
Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Part I: Optimisation in Economy and Working Life
1. Optimisation in Context of Financialisation (Eve Chiapello)
2. The Subject in the Marketplace, the Subject as a Marketplace (Ulrich
Bröckling)
3. The Missing Link: How Organisations Bridge the Gap between Dynamic
Stabilisation and Individual Optimisation (Hartmut Rosa, Diana Lindner,
Jörg Oberthür)
Part II: Changes in Intersubjectivity - Pathologies of the Social
4. "Fitter, Happier, More Productive": Optimising Time with Technology (
Judy Wajcman)
5. Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct - Transformations in Relations to
the Self and to Others, especially in Generational Care (Vera King, Julia
Schreiber, Niels Uhlendorf, Benigna Gerisch)
6. The Two Meanings of the Notion of Social Pathology: Toward an
Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society (Alain Ehrenberg)
Part III: The Optimised Self
7. The Authoritarian Dimension in Digital Self-Tracking - Containment,
Commodification, Subjugation (Steffen Krüger)
8. The Truth of Fear (Heinz Bude)
9. Perfection, Sublimation and Idealisation (Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor)
10. A Pathological Organization Based on a Longing for Perfection (Heinz
Weiß, Heinrich Merkt)
Part IV: Optimisation of the Body
11. Optimisation by Knife: On Types of Biographical Appropriation of
Aesthetic Surgery in Late Modernity (Benigna Gerisch, Benedikt Salfeld,
Christiane Beerbom, Katarina Busch, Vera King)
12. Fighting Death with Aesthetic Medicine. The Rise of Minimal Invasive
Procedures in Times of Self-Optimisation (Ada Borkenhagen)
13. Rationalising Life by Means of Self-Optimisation. The
Obsessive-Compulsive Excess of Gustav Großmann. A Striking Example for the
Rationalistic Bookkeeper-Personality (Jürgen Straub)
Conclusions (Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Index
Introduction: 'Lost in Perfection' - Ideals and Performances (Vera King,
Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Part I: Optimisation in Economy and Working Life
1. Optimisation in Context of Financialisation (Eve Chiapello)
2. The Subject in the Marketplace, the Subject as a Marketplace (Ulrich
Bröckling)
3. The Missing Link: How Organisations Bridge the Gap between Dynamic
Stabilisation and Individual Optimisation (Hartmut Rosa, Diana Lindner,
Jörg Oberthür)
Part II: Changes in Intersubjectivity - Pathologies of the Social
4. "Fitter, Happier, More Productive": Optimising Time with Technology (
Judy Wajcman)
5. Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct - Transformations in Relations to
the Self and to Others, especially in Generational Care (Vera King, Julia
Schreiber, Niels Uhlendorf, Benigna Gerisch)
6. The Two Meanings of the Notion of Social Pathology: Toward an
Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society (Alain Ehrenberg)
Part III: The Optimised Self
7. The Authoritarian Dimension in Digital Self-Tracking - Containment,
Commodification, Subjugation (Steffen Krüger)
8. The Truth of Fear (Heinz Bude)
9. Perfection, Sublimation and Idealisation (Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor)
10. A Pathological Organization Based on a Longing for Perfection (Heinz
Weiß, Heinrich Merkt)
Part IV: Optimisation of the Body
11. Optimisation by Knife: On Types of Biographical Appropriation of
Aesthetic Surgery in Late Modernity (Benigna Gerisch, Benedikt Salfeld,
Christiane Beerbom, Katarina Busch, Vera King)
12. Fighting Death with Aesthetic Medicine. The Rise of Minimal Invasive
Procedures in Times of Self-Optimisation (Ada Borkenhagen)
13. Rationalising Life by Means of Self-Optimisation. The
Obsessive-Compulsive Excess of Gustav Großmann. A Striking Example for the
Rationalistic Bookkeeper-Personality (Jürgen Straub)
Conclusions (Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Index
Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Part I: Optimisation in Economy and Working Life
1. Optimisation in Context of Financialisation (Eve Chiapello)
2. The Subject in the Marketplace, the Subject as a Marketplace (Ulrich
Bröckling)
3. The Missing Link: How Organisations Bridge the Gap between Dynamic
Stabilisation and Individual Optimisation (Hartmut Rosa, Diana Lindner,
Jörg Oberthür)
Part II: Changes in Intersubjectivity - Pathologies of the Social
4. "Fitter, Happier, More Productive": Optimising Time with Technology (
Judy Wajcman)
5. Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct - Transformations in Relations to
the Self and to Others, especially in Generational Care (Vera King, Julia
Schreiber, Niels Uhlendorf, Benigna Gerisch)
6. The Two Meanings of the Notion of Social Pathology: Toward an
Anthropology of Adversity in Individualistic Society (Alain Ehrenberg)
Part III: The Optimised Self
7. The Authoritarian Dimension in Digital Self-Tracking - Containment,
Commodification, Subjugation (Steffen Krüger)
8. The Truth of Fear (Heinz Bude)
9. Perfection, Sublimation and Idealisation (Sophie de Mijolla-Mellor)
10. A Pathological Organization Based on a Longing for Perfection (Heinz
Weiß, Heinrich Merkt)
Part IV: Optimisation of the Body
11. Optimisation by Knife: On Types of Biographical Appropriation of
Aesthetic Surgery in Late Modernity (Benigna Gerisch, Benedikt Salfeld,
Christiane Beerbom, Katarina Busch, Vera King)
12. Fighting Death with Aesthetic Medicine. The Rise of Minimal Invasive
Procedures in Times of Self-Optimisation (Ada Borkenhagen)
13. Rationalising Life by Means of Self-Optimisation. The
Obsessive-Compulsive Excess of Gustav Großmann. A Striking Example for the
Rationalistic Bookkeeper-Personality (Jürgen Straub)
Conclusions (Vera King, Benigna Gerisch, Hartmut Rosa)
Index