Domonkos Sik

Empty Suffering (eBook, PDF)

A Social Phenomenology of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book offers an analysis of contemporary forms of suffering, including depression, anxiety, chronic pain and addiction, and the treatments commonly applied to them, considering whether certain treatments and therapies are contributory factors to the overall problem of contemporary suffering.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000474565
• Artikelnr.: 62616055

Autorenporträt

Domonkos Sik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and alumni of CEU-IAS, Budapest-Vienna. He is the author of several monographs in critical theory, including Radicalism and Indifference.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Genealogies of Late Modern Suffering 1. From
Naturalized Suffering to Futile Ownership - A Genealogy of Depressed
Lifeworld 2. The Social Constituents of Fear - A Phenomenology of Negative
Integration 3. Power from Indirect Pain - A Historical Phenomenology of
Medical Pain Management Part 2: Networks of Depression, Anxiety and
Addiction 4. Depression as Social Suffering - Distortions of Communicative
and Competitive Interactions 5. Networks of Anxiety - From the Distortions
of Late Modern Societies to the Social Components of Anxiety 6.
Actor-Networks of Addiction - From Reification to the Emergence of a Late
Modern Hybrid Subjectivity Part 3: Beyond Suffering - Spontaneous and
Hybrid Strategies Dealing with Late Modern Social Suffering 7. From the
Contingencies of Biomedicine to Secular Ritual Healing - An Online
Ethnography of Depression Forums 8. Beyond Organic Solidarity - From the
Paradoxes of Late Modern Welfare State to the Moral Challenges of Crisis
Management 9. Ways Out from Suffering - On Quasi-Therapeutic Networks