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Title: The Evolution of Alienation
Condition: New
EAN: 9780742518346
ISBN: 9780742518346
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 08/12/2005
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 180mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 680g
Contributor: Harry F. Dahms (Contributions by), Matthew David (Contributions by), Rick Gibson (Contributions by), Martha Gimenez (Contributions by), Karen Halnon (Contributions by), Lauren Langman (Contributions by), Lauren Langman (Edited by), Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (Edited by), Chip Berlet (Contributions by), Douglas Kellner (Contributions by), Douglas Porpora (Contributions by), Marvin Prosono (Contributions by), Roger A. Salerno (Contributions by), David Norman Smith (Contributions by)
Language: English
Subtitle: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium
ISBN-10: 0742518345
Description: The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise and the Millennium presents a collection of essays that examine the prevalence of alienation in the contemporary world. Although the authors share a critical approach to society, their views of alienation vary. While some feel that alienation is inescapable under the conditions of late modernity, others see that especially at this time there are opportunities to overcome alienation. Testing their approaches, the authors touch on highly diverse domains of life. The book is divided into four sections, each with a focus on how alienation is produced and, perhaps, overcome. Part I presents theoretical approaches to 'shifting views of alienation'. Here the authors discuss how alienation is disclosed in social science, in technology, and in biological constructions of the human being. Part II deals with political consequences of alienation. The three chapters focus on how alienation can lead to fascist beliefs, how it functions in the development of authoritarian personalities, and how alienation is disclosed in teen-age violence, but also in the justice meted out to desperate teens, without compassion. Part III includes examinations of 'alienation in identity, culture, and religion'. Here, researchers discuss how the alienating conditions of globalization create alienated identities that are carnivalized in shock music and in exploitative television shows. The last chapter of this section sees in these developments evidence of our inability or unwillingness as social scientists to deal with transcendental values. Part IV focuses on phenomena from everyday life, showing how alienation undermines the advantages of community, and the intimacies of dialogue. Although the very concern with alienation shows awareness of trauma, there are, throughout the book, hints of promise - in technology, in loving and creative domesticity, in activism and through grass-roots initiatives in education. Through an interest in the cosmos human being may yet discover the way out of alienating labyrinths.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Author: Matthew David
Release Year: 2005

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