The Evolution of Alienation

Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium
Herausgeber: Langman, Lauren; Kalekin-Fishman, Devorah

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Produktbeschreibung

Building on the Marxian view of alienation as the inevitable consequence of wage labor that divests human beings of control over their life forces, The Evolution of Alienation provides new insights into contemporary conditions. Contributors explore how alienation is fostered not only by television freak shows and shock music, but also by programmed schooling and even by some scientific theories. Others show that the contradictory relationships possible in some domains, among them, new technologies and domestic work, disclose niches of fulfillment that belie alienation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780742518353
• ISBN-10: 0742518353
• Artikelnr.: 22182332

Autorenporträt

Edited by Lauren Langman and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman - Contributions by Chip Berlet; Harry F. Dahms; Matthew David; Rick Gibson; Martha Gimenez; Karen Halnon; Douglas Kellner; Lauren Langman; Douglas Porpora; Marvin Prosono; Roger A. Salerno and David Nor

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Does Alienation Have a Future? Recapturing
the Core of Critical Theory Chapter 3 New Technologies and Alienation: Some
Critical Reflections Chapter 4 Embodiment and Communication: Alienation,
Genetics, and Computing. What Does It Mean to Be Human? Chapter 5 Authority
Fetishism and the Manichaean Vision: Stigma, Stereotyping, and Charisma as
Keys to Pseudo-Orientation in an Estranged Society Chapter 6 When
Alienation Turns Right: Populist Conspiracism, the Apocalyptic Style, and
Neo-Fascist Movements Chapter 7 Lonely Privilege in Despair: Aiming for
Unfeigned Hope Chapter 8 Globalization, Alienation, and Identity: A
Critical Approach Chapter 9 Alienation Incorporated: "F-- the Mainstream
Music" in the Mainstream Chapter 10 The Final Indignity: The
Commodification of Alienation Chapter 11 Alienation and the Cosmos Chapter
12 Alienated Communities: Between Aloneness and Connectedness Chapter 13
Loving Alienation: The Contradictions of Domestic Work Chapter 14 "Plain
Talk": Producing and Reproducing Alienation