Mark Featherstone

Tocqueville's Virus

Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book shows how utopia and dystopia have been fatally entangled in western social and political thought and considers possible solutions to this apparently fatal relationship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415542470
• ISBN-10: 0415542472
• Artikelnr.: 35455433

Autorenporträt

Mark Featherstone is Lecturer in Sociology at Keele University, UK. He has written widely on American mythology and social, political, and cultural theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Tocqueville's Virus Part I: Ancients and Moderns 1. Freedom
and Tyranny in Socrates and Plato 2. Friends, Enemies, and the Cosmology of
Power Politics 3. The Mechanisation of Society and the Pathologies of the
Self Part II: The Madness of Modernity 4. Modernity and Schizophrenia 5.
Autism, Paranoia, Critique Part III: Totalitarianism 6. Arendt's Theory of
Totalitarianism 7. Arendt's Paranoia Critique of Modernity. Conclusion:
America, Nation of the Edge. Bibliography