Anders Petersen was Associate Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark, and former President of the Danish Sociological Association.Bert van den Bergh teaches cultural philosophy in the Department of European Studies at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.Sabine Flick is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Education, Freiburg, Germany.Kieran Keohane is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and the School of Society, Politics and Ethics at University College Cork, Ireland.Domonkos Sik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.

• AcknowledgementAnders Petersen – his life and memoryThe original publication of the chaptersNotes on Contributors1. Introduction: The Work of Anders PetersenBert van den Bergh, Sabine Flick, Kieran Keohane, Domonkos SikPart 1: Depression, Anxiety and Happiness2. Introduction to part 1Carmen Kuhling3. Authentic Self-Realization and DepressionAnders Petersen4. Return of the Age of Anxiety: The Embedding of a Late Modern Social PathologyAnders Petersen 5. ‘Clap Along if You Feel Like a Room Without a Roof’: Understanding the Pursuit of Happiness as IdeologyAnders Petersen 6. Depression: Emotion and (or) Dis-Connection in Late Modern SocietyAnders Petersen, Bert van den BerghPart 2: Liberalism and Disenfranchisement7. Introduction to part 2Søren Christian Krogh 8. The Demand for Flexibility as a Process of DisenfranchisementAnders Petersen, Rasmus Willig 9. Evaluations as a Process of DisenfranchisementAnders Petersen, Rasmus WilligPart 3: Grief and Diagnostic Culture10. Introduction to part 3Svend Brinkmann11. Grief: The Painfulness of Permanent Human AbsenceAnders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen12. Grief in an Individualized Society: A Critical Corrective to the Advancement of Diagnostic CultureAnders Petersen, Michael Hviid Jacobsen13. Outro: Working with Anders Petersen - A Dialogue with Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Søren Christian Krogh and Carmen Kuhling 14. Index