Anxiety, modern society, and the critical method : toward a theory and practice of critical socioanalysis /
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| Author / Creator: | Crombez, Joel Michael, author. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, 2022. |
| Description: | x, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences book series New scholarship in political economy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12712325 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part 1. From Traditional to Modern Society: The Critical Method of Early Modern Social Thought
- Introduction to Part 1
- 1. Scenic Landscape 1
- 1. Traditional Life and the Totalizing Logic of Christianity
- 2. A Revolution in Space and of the Mind
- 3. Enlightenment and the Birth of Modernity
- 2. Critical Methods 1
- 1. From Philosophy to Social Theory: (Hegel, Feuerbach, and) Marx's Critical Method and the Totalizing Logic of Capital
- 2. The Individual, the Social, and the Knot: Toward the Durkheimian Symptom of Anomie
- 3. Totalizing the Mind and Spirit: Weber and the Unholy Union of Religion and Capital
- 4. From Psychoanalysis to Socio analysis: Anxiety, Repression, and Talk Therapy in Freud
- Conclusion to Part 1
- Part 2. Technology, Modern Wars, and the Rise of Consumer Culture: The Frankfurt School Revisits the Critical Method
- Introduction to Part 2
- 3. Scenic Landscape 2
- 1. The Totalizing Logic of Capital Comes of Age: The Path to Technological Embeddedness and Mass Society
- 2. The Darker Side of Modernity: World War
- 4. Critical Methods 2
- 1. The Psychosocial Origins of the Frankfurt School
- 2. From the Critical Method to Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics
- 3. A Lesson for Socioanalysis: Anxiety and the Social Vicissitudes of Technology and War in Mass Society
- Conclusion to Part 2
- Part 3. Anxiety-Dreams of Posthuman Futures: Sorting through the Discourses of 21st Century Life
- Introduction to Part 3
- 5. Scenic Landscape 3
- 1. The Postmodern Rupture in Modern Society
- 2. We Are All Cyborgs Now: Life in the Mass
- 3. The Coming Tide: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Colonization
- 6. Critical Methods 3
- 1. Critical Socioanalysis: Setting Up
- 2. Discourses of the Psyche and the Self: A Lacanian Framework
- 3. The Other Side of Socioanalysis: A Guide for Talk Therapy
- Conclusion to Part 3
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
