Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents: Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease (The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization)

This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Keohane, Kieran

van den Bergh, Bert

Petersen, Anders

Mental Health

Routledge

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences: Creativity, Poetics and Rhetoric in Social Research (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory)

Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences develops, expands and challenges conventional social scientific methodology and language by way of literary, poetic and other alternative sources of inspiration, as sociologists, social workers, anthropologists, criminologists and psychologists all rethink, provoke and reignite social scientific methodology. Challenging the mainstream orthodoxy of social scientific methodology, which closely guards the boundaries between the social sciences and the arts and humanities, this volume reveals that authors and artists are often engaged in projects parallel to those of the social sciences and vice versa, thus demonstrating that artistic and cultural production does not necessarily constitute a specialist field, but is in fact integral to social reality. As such, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the social sciences and across the arts and humanities working on the philosophy of social science, methodology, social theory, creativity, poetics, pedagogy and other related topics.

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid

Drake, Michael S.

Reference

Vu a Paris

KOLLAR, Martin

Ackerman, Michael

Deschamps, Pierre Olivier

Strömholm, Christer

Engström, JH

Tunbjörk, Lars, et al

Panini

Cafe Lehmitz (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Schirmer/Mosel

Alberto García-Alix (born 1956) is widely considered Spain's most popular contemporary photographer. Emerging from the post-Franco era of free expression known as La Movida, García-Alix vividly captured Madrid's countercultural revolution in the late 1970s and 80s. Surveying the artist's career, this publication spans that pivotal period to the present, examining his work in multiple genres.

Alberto García-Alix: From Where There Is No Return (Libros de Autor)

Arts & Photography

Talens, Jenaro

Combarro, Nicolás

Photography & Video

La Fábrica

In 1967 Petersen started photographing the customers of a bar called Café Lehmitz in Hamburg. He kept coming there for a period of almost three years and in 1970 Café Lehmitz hosted Petersen's first solo exhibition, with 350 photographs nailed to the wall. All sorts of people went to Cafe Lehmitz: locals, people from the harbour and surrounding cities, as well as a lot of elderly prostitutes. People who went there had often had a hard life and were not accepted anywhere else. Café Lehmitz, first published in 1978, is an affectionate portrayal of the regular visitors of this late night bar, and is highly influential in the history of photography. This new book shows the images that Petersen highlighted and marked on the contact proof sheets of the period, with signs, signals and colours. They have lost that original intention of prominance and of status, their Morse code, their meaning, but they have gained the gesture.

Lehmitz Color

Individual Artists

Cabeza de Chorlito

Anders Petersen

Contrasto DUE

Anders Petersen: Close Distance

Journal

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