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Postemotional Society

By Stjepan Mestrovic

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1997
ISBN
0761951288, 9780761951285
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11844631 bytes)
Pages
192\191
Time added
2015-05-07 10:02:14

Description

Introducing a new term to the sociological lexicon: `postemotionalism', Stjepan G Me[inverted ci]strovi[ac]c argues that the focus of postmodernism has been on knowledge and information, and he demonstrates how the emotions in mass, industrial societies have been neglected to devastating effect. Using contempoary examples, the author shows how emotion has become increasingly separated from action; how - in a world of disjointed and synthetic emotions - social solidarity has become more problematic; and how compassion fatigue has increasingly replaced political commitment and responsibility. Me[inverted ci]strovi[ac]c discusses the relation between knowledge and the emotions in thinkers as diverse as Durkheim and Baudrillard

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