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The Evolution of Alienation - Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium (Hardcover)
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The Evolution of Alienation - Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium (Hardcover)
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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.
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