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Social Suffering - Sociology, Psychology, Politics (Hardcover)
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Social Suffering - Sociology, Psychology, Politics (Hardcover)
Series: Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory
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There are various forms of suffering that are best described as
social suffering, such as stress, harassment, experience of poverty
and domination. Such suffering is a matter of social concern, but
it is rarely a matter of discussion in the social sciences,
political theory or philosophy. This book aims to change this by
making social suffering central to an interdisciplinary critical
theory of society. The author advances the various contemporary
debates about social suffering, connecting their epistemological
and political stakes. He provides tools for recasting these
debates, constructs a consistent conception of social suffering,
and thereby equips us with a better understanding of our social
world, and more accurate models of social critique. The book
contributes to contemporary debates about social suffering in
sociology, social psychology, political theory and philosophy.
Renault argues that social suffering should be taken seriously in
social theory as well as in social critique and provides a
systematic account of the ways in which social suffering could be
conceptualised. He goes on to inquire into the political uses of
references to social suffering, surveys contemporary controversies
in the social sciences, and distinguishes between economical,
socio-medical, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches, before
proposing an integrative model and discussing the implications for
social critique. He claims that the notion of social suffering
captures some of the most specific features of the contemporary
social question and that the most appropriate approach to social
suffering is that of an interdisciplinary critical theory of
society.
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