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This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of forty figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences of discontent in modern societies, exploring the important social and cultural conditions associated with modernity and ultimately characterising it as a 'differentiated complaint'.
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Thomas S. Henricks is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Elon University, United States. He is the author of Selves, Societies, and Emotions: Understanding the Pathways of Experience; Play and the Human Condition; Play: A Basic Pathway to the Self; and Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression and the co-editor of Handbook for the Study of Play.
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This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and consequences of discontent in modern societies. Exploring the important social and cultural conditions associated with modernity, it focuses on the contributions of 38 prominent scholars from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries - philosophers, historians, and social scientists - on the subject of discontent and social malaise, and individual and collective well-being. Thematically organized, this volume offers brief portraits of the lives and key ideas of these thinkers, leading toward a presentation of modernity as a "differentiated complaint." Reclaiming an important tradition in the human and social sciences that sees life on a grand scale, that integrates personal affairs with social and cultural matters, and that dares people to recommit themselves to this broader vision of human involvement, Anatomies of Modern Discontent will appeal to readers across the social sciences and humanities, particularly those with interests in social theory, sociology, and philosophy.
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Introduction: Modernity's Challenges to Self Part I: New Patterns of Social Experience
Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism
Emile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection
Max Weber: Rationalization's Iron Grip
Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition
Erich Kahler: Split from Without - and Within
Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community
Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World
Daniel Bell: Capitalism's Contradictions
Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment
David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society
Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations
Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine
Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter
Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom
Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism
C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses
Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control
Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other
W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness
Franz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism
Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender
Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain
Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age
Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts
Erich Fromm: Society Against Self
Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society
Norman O. Brown: Embracing Life - and Death
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea - and Reorientation
Erving Goffman: Managing Modern Identities
Arlie Hochschild: Commercialized Feeling
Anthony Giddens: Challenges to Self in a Runaway World
Kenneth Gergen: Saturated Selves
Martin Buber: Personhood as Dialogue
Conclusion: An Anatomy of Modern Discontent