A Critique Of Contemporary Social Pathology Diagnosis
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A Critique Of Contemporary Social Pathology Diagnosis
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Author : Neal Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02-15
A Critique Of Contemporary Social Pathology Diagnosis written by Neal Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-15 with Medical categories.
Long before I encountered the concept of social pathology I had been intuitively fascinated by 'deeper', more 'foundational' social critiques. In my teenage years, as a socialist from a workingclass family, society simply seemed 'crazy' or 'illogical' to me. I would read about the grotesque inequalities of wealth, the self-indulgent fancies of billionaires, man-made global warming, the continued presence of racial and gender inequalities, neo-colonial wars, even the persistence of the House of Lords ... to my unschooled mind, the best word to describe this was 'bonkers'. So, as a precocious (at times insufferable) college student, I would puzzle over Rousseau and Nietzsche, not always understanding it, but feeling there was 'something' there which was 'weightier' than the prescribed liberal readings of my textbooks. During my undergraduate degree I became fascinated by Hegel and Adorno for similar reasons, and with comparable semicomprehension. It was only during my Master's, that these thoughts developed any clear form, and I slowly became aware that there was a rich theoretical literature on the explicit commonality across these authors: that of 'social pathology'
Pathology Diagnosis And Social Research
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Author : Neal Harris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-04-24
Pathology Diagnosis And Social Research written by Neal Harris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-24 with Social Science categories.
The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory. As this volume will elaborate, the pathology diagnosing imagination enables a “thicker” form of social critique, fostering research that pushes beyond the parameters of liberal social and political thought. Faced with impending climatic catastrophe, the accelerating inequities of neoliberalism, the ascent of authoritarian movements globally, and one-dimensional computational modes of thought, a viable form of normative social critique is now more important than ever. The central aim of this volume is thus to champion the pathology diagnosing imagination as a vehicle for conducting such timely social criticism.
The Social Pathologies Of Contemporary Civilization
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Author : Kieran Keohane
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Social Pathologies Of Contemporary Civilization written by Kieran Keohane and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Social Science categories.
The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole. Rather than considering such conditions in isolation - both from one another and from broader contexts - this book argues that health and well-being are not just located at the level of the individual body, the integral human person, or even collective social bodies; rather, they encompass the health of humanity as a whole and our relationship with Nature. A ground-breaking analysis of social malaise and the health of civilization, this book will be of interest to scholars of sociology, social theory, social psychology, philosophy and anthropology.
The Social Pathologies Of Contemporary Civilization
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Author : Kieran Keohane
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
The Social Pathologies Of Contemporary Civilization written by Kieran Keohane and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Social Science categories.
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: ADDRESSING THE QUESTION -- 1 The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society -- 2 The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering -- 3 Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin -- PART II SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: CONTEMPORARY MALAISES -- 4 The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financialization as Social Pathogenesis -- 5 Depression: Resisting Ultra-liberalism? -- 6 The Pathologization of Morality -- 7 The Multiple Self: A Social Pathology? -- 8 Possible Explanations for Increasing Antidepressant Treatment in Modern Society -- PART III SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: BIOPOWER, SUBJECTIFICATION AND CIVILIZATION -- 9 Does Society Still Matter? Mental Health and Illness and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century -- 10 Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement -- 11 Schismogenesis, Liminality and Public Health
Descent Of The Dialectic
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Author : Michael J. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-08-01
Descent Of The Dialectic written by Michael J. Thompson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-01 with Philosophy categories.
This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with objective rationality. This book argues that defects in modern forms of social reason are the result of the powers of social structure and the norms and purposes they embody. Increasingly, modern societies are driven not by substantive values concerning human good but by the technical imperatives of economic management, leading to a cultural condition of nihilism that has eroded dialectical consciousness. The first half of the book demonstrates the various ways that social power erodes and undermines critical-rational forms of consciousness. The second part of the book constructs an alternative basis for critical reason by showing how it requires seeing human value as essentially ontological: that is, constituted by objective forms of sociality that either promote human freedom or pervert our capacities and drive toward pathological forms of life. The philosophical claim is that a critical theory of ethics must be rooted in these concrete forms of life and that this will serve as a critical vantage point for critical political judgment and transformational praxis. Descent of the Dialectic will be of interest to researchers working in philosophy, political theory, social theory, and critical theory.
Society And Social Pathology
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Author : R.C. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-02-21
Society And Social Pathology written by R.C. Smith and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-21 with Political Science categories.
This book offers one of the most comprehensive studies of social pathology to date, following a cross-disciplinary and methodologically innovative approach. It is written for anyone concerned with understanding current social conditions, individual health, and how we might begin to collectively conceive of a more reconciled postcapitalist world. Drawing reference from the most up-to-date studies, Smith crosses disciplinary boundaries from cognitive science and anthropology to critical theory, systems theory and psychology. Opening with an empirical account of numerous interlinked carises from mental health to the physiological effects of environmental pollution, Smith argues that mainstream sociological theories of pathology are deeply inadequate. Smith introduces an alternative critical conception of pathology that drills to the core of how and why society is deeply ailing. The book concludes with a detailed account of why a progressive and critical vision of social change requires a “holistic view” of individual and societal transformation. Such a view is grounded in the awareness that a sustainable transition to postcapitalism is ultimately a many-sided (social, individual, and structural) healing process.
Routledge International Handbook Of Contemporary Social And Political Theory
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Author : Gerard Delanty
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-09-20
Routledge International Handbook Of Contemporary Social And Political Theory written by Gerard Delanty and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-20 with Political Science categories.
The triangular relationship between the social, the political, and the cultural has opened up social and political theory to new challenges. The social can no longer be reduced to the category of society, and the political extends beyond the traditional concerns of the nature of the state and political authority. This Handbook will address a range of issues that have recently emerged from the disciplines of social and political theory, focusing on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or major theorists. It is divided into three sections which address: the most influential theoretical traditions that have emerged from the legacy of the twentieth century; the most important new and emerging frameworks of analysis today; the major theoretical problems in recent social and political theory. The Second edition is an enlarged, revised, and updated version of the first edition, which was published in 2011 and comprised 42 chapters. The new edition consists of 50 chapters, of which seventeen are entirely new chapters covering topics that have become increasingly prominent in social and political theory in recent years, such as populism, the new materialism, postcolonialism, Deleuzean theory, post-humanism, post-capitalism as well as older topics that were not covered in the first edition, such as Arendt, the gift, critical realism, anarchism. All chapters retained from the first edition have been thoroughly revised and updated. The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory encompasses the most up-to-date developments in contemporary social and political theory, and as such is an essential research tool for both undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers working in the fields of political theory, social and political philosophy, contemporary social theory, and cultural theory.
The Specter Of Babel
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Author : Michael J. Thompson
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-11-01
The Specter Of Babel written by Michael J. Thompson and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-01 with Political Science categories.
In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of Babel, Michael J. Thompson offers a critical reconstruction of the concept of political judgment that can help resuscitate critical citizenship and democratic life. At the center of the book are two arguments. The first is that modern practical and political philosophy has made a postmetaphysical turn that is unable to guard against the effects of social power on consciousness and the deliberative powers of citizens. The second is that an alternative path toward a critical social ontology can provide a framework for a new theory of ethics and politics. This critical social ontology looks at human sociality not as mere intersubjectivity or communication, but rather as constituted by the shapes that our social-relational structures take as well as the kinds of purposes and ends toward which our social lives are organized. Only by calling these into question, Thompson boldly argues, can we once again attempt to revitalize social critique and democratic politics.
Ortner S Identification Of Pathological Conditions In Human Skeletal Remains
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Author : Jane Buikstra
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2019-01-29
Ortner S Identification Of Pathological Conditions In Human Skeletal Remains written by Jane Buikstra and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-29 with Law categories.
Ortner's Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains, Third Edition, provides an integrated and comprehensive treatment of the pathological conditions that affect the human skeleton. As ancient skeletal remains can reveal a treasure trove of information to the modern orthopedist, pathologist, forensic anthropologist, and radiologist, this book presents a timely resource. Beautifully illustrated with over 1,100 photographs and drawings, it provides an essential text and material on bone pathology, thus helping improve the diagnostic ability of those interested in human dry bone pathology. Presents a comprehensive review of the skeletal diseases encountered in archaeological human remains Includes more than 1100 photographs and line drawings illustrating skeletal diseases, including both microscopic and gross features Based on extensive research on skeletal paleopathology in many countries Reviews important theoretical issues on how to interpret evidence of skeletal disease in archaeological human populations
Diagnosis In Social Fields And Networks
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Author : Sotirios Chtouris
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Diagnosis In Social Fields And Networks written by Sotirios Chtouris and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.