Warren Tenhouten

Alienation and Affect (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Alienation has objective, social causes, yet manifests as subjective, emotion-laden experience. Alienation, Adaptation and Affect analyses the ten kinds of alienation that are linked to specific primary, secondary, and tertiary emotions, synthesizing alienation theory and the sociology of emotions. The advancements the book addresses will benefit social psychiatry and sociology, and will resonate with large segments of contemporary populations experiencing alienation firsthand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317678526
• Artikelnr.: 47382417

Autorenporträt

Warren D. TenHouten, Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the author of nearly 100 publications, including Time and Society (2005), A General Theory of Emotions and Social Life (2007), and Emotion and Reason (2012). His interdisciplinary research interests have spanned the sociology of time, neurosociology, creativity, and life-historical and historiometric research methodology. His current work concerns emotions and the foundations of human rationality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: Alienation and Affect in Historical Context
1. Alienation and Affect, From the Ancient World to Early Modernity
2. Alienation and Affect in 18th and 19th Century Social Philosophy
3. Alienation, from Hegel and Feuerbach to Marx and Engels
4. Alienation and Affect in the Late-19th and the 20th Centuries
PART II: Emotions Basic to Specific Varieties of Alienation: Contemporary
Theory and Research
5. Emotions as Adaptive Reactions to Problems of Life
6. Normlessness, Anomie, and the Emotions
7. Self-Estrangement and Despair
8 Meaninglessness, Ressentiment, and Resentment
9. Cultural Estrangement and the Emotions
10. The Emotions of Powerlessness
11. A Summing Up, Competing Sociological Models of Alienation, and Issues
in Alienation Theory and Research