Rudolf F. Geyer

Alienation, Ethnicity, and Postmodernism

Herausgeber: Geyer, Felix R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume offer the reader a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing current debates in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and social philosophy. In his introductory essay, Felix Geyer discusses how classical notions of alienation have been put to use to describe the dysfunctions within societies that are becoming sharply divided along racial lines and according to the disparities in power described by postmodernism. The essays that follow Geyer's introduction then take up the problems of alienation, ethnicity, and postmodernism in the contexts of increasing economic globalization and renewed racial hostility in communities both in the United States and abroad.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780313298882
• ISBN-10: 0313298882
• Artikelnr.: 20973958

Autorenporträt

FELIX GEYER is the Scientific Coordinator of SISWO, the Netherlands Universities' Institute for Coordination of Research in the Social Sciences. Dr. Geyer has written numerous articles and edited several books on alienation and systems theory.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction: Alienation, Ethnicity, and Postmodernism: From Here
to Postmodernity by Felix Geyer Alienation Redux by Richard Schacht The
Strange Career of Alienation: How a Concept Is Transformed without
Permission of Its Founders by Irving Louis Horowitz The Fetishization of
Alienation: Unpacking a Problem of Science, Knowledge, and Reified
Practices in the Workplace by David Schweitzer "But What Can 'One' Do?:"
Agency and Alienation in Economic Crises by Peter Archibald Building
Democracy in the New South Africa: Civil Society, Citizenship, and
Political Ideology by Mark Orkin Immigration, Alienation, and Political
Change: A Positive Case from Los Angeles by John Horton Ethnic Revival and
Conflicts: The Challenge of the 1990s by Yehuda Bien Tracing the Growth of
Alienation: Enculturation, Socialization, and Schooling in a Democracy by
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman Alienation and Racial Discrimination in the
European Union by Marie Macey Postmodern Culture and the Revisioning of
Alienation by Kenneth J. Gergen The Self Strikes Back: Identity Politics in
the Postmodern Age by Lauren Langman and Valerie Scatamburla Alienation,
Everyday Life, and Postmodernism as Critical Theory by Mark Gottdiener
Post-ism or Positivism? A Comparison Between Theories of Reification and
Theories of Postmodernity by Frédéric Vandenberghe Alienation, New Age
Sociology and the Jewish Way by Philip Wexler Cross the Border, Confront
Boundaries: Problems of Habituality, Marginality, and Liminality by
Pirkkoliisa Ahponen Individual, Time, and Death in Contemporary Society by
Maria Helena Oliva Augusto Bibliography Author Index Subject Index