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Overview
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.
Synopsis
Offers an international and interdisciplinary approach to the problems facing the globalized and fractious world of the 21st century.
Booknews
The sixth collection of papers generated by activities of the Research Committee on alienation Theory and Research of the International Sociological Association. Among the 16 topics are how a concept is transformed without permission of its founders, the fetishization of alienation, agency and alienation in economic crises, democracy in the new South Africa, and racial discrimination in the European Union. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.