The social pathologies of contemporary civilization / edited by Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen.

Classical and contemporary social theoryIncludes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Social pathologies: addressing the question. The Notion of Social Pathology: A case study of Narcissus in American society / Alain Ehrenberg -- The social pathologies of contemporary civilization: Meaning-giving experiences and pathological expectations concerning health and suffering / Arpad Szakolczai -- Modernity as spiritual disorder: searching for a vocabulary of social pathologies in the work of Eric Voegelin / Bjørn Thomassen. pt. 2. Social pathologies: contemporary malaises. The value of houses in the libidinal economy: financialization as social pathogenesis / Kieran Keohane -- Depression: resisting ultra-liberalism? / Bert van den Bergh -- The pathologization of morality / Svend Brinkmann -- The multiple self: a social pathology? / Annalisa Porfilio -- Possible Explanations for increasing antidepressant treatment in modem society / Margerethe Nielsen and Gunnar Scott Reinbacher. pt. 3. Socioa pathologies: biopower, subjectification and civilization. Does society still matter? Mental health and illness and the social sciences in the twenty-first century / Pia Ringø -- Evaluations as a process of disenfranchisement / Anders Petersen and Rasmus Willig -- Schismogenesis, liminality and public health / Agnes Horvath.The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises, diseases, illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes, examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body. Multi-disciplinary in approach, the book is concerned with questions of how these conditions are not only manifest at the level of individual patients' bodies, but also how the social 'bodies politic' are related to the hegemony of reductive biomedical and individual-psychologistic perspectives. Rejecting a reductive, biomedical and individualistic diagnosis of contemporary problems of health and well-being, The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization contends that many such problems are to be understood in the light of radical changes in social structures and institutions, extending to deep crises in our civilization as a whole.

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