This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society. It examines the escapist potentials for good and for ill in modern society - those fostered by commercial interests, and those maintained by individuals and groups as their form of resisting alienation.
Author(s): Jerome Braun, Lauren Langman
Series: Routledge Studies In Social And Political Thought | 73
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF | Full TOC
Pages: 215
Tags: Alienation (Social Psychology); Carnivals
Cover
Half title
Series title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Part I : Alienation in ModernMass SocietyIts Consequences in ProducingPost-Modernity That Is IncreasinglySimilar to Pre-Modernity
1. The Rise of the Nazis as an Example of Sadistic Carnival
2. Democracy and the Dilemmas of Nation-Building
3. The Gap between the Ideal and the Real in Politics
4 The Increasing Similarities between Post-Modernity and Pre-Modernity
Part II : The Carnivalization of Society
5. Alienation, Entrapment, and Inauthenticity
6. Carnivalization and Freedom
7. Theorizing Carnival
8. Authoritarianism and Carnivalization in the 2008 Presidential Election and the Return of Right-Wing Populism
9. The Dialectics of Carnival
Part III : Conclusion
Conclusion
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
