The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization

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This title 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. Cover Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I Social Pathologies: Addressing the Question 1 The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society 2 The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering 3 Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin Part II Social Pathologies: Contemporary Malaises 4 The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financialization as Social Pathogenesis 5 Depression: Resisting Ultra-liberalism? 6 The Pathologization of Morality 7 The Multiple Self: A Social Pathology? 8 Possible Explanations for Increasing Antidepressant Treatment in Modern Society Part III Social Pathologies: Biopower, Subjectification and Civilization 9 Does Society Still Matter? Mental Health and Illness and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century 10 Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement 11 Schismogenesis, Liminality and Public Health Index