Enduring Modernity

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Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Bert van den Bergh, Sabine Flick, Kieran Keohane, Domonkos Sik, Bert Van Den Bergh, Bert van den Bergh

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This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insights into anxiety, depression and grief, and the connection between these conditions and the failings of contemporary civilization that give rise to them. With attention to the ways in which neoliberal hegemony and its imperatives of ‘performance’, ‘evaluation’, ‘self-realisation’, ‘resilience’ and ‘flexibility’ lead to self-criticism on the part of those who do not measure up to the prevailing criteria, resulting in ailments of mental health, it challenges the paradigmatic diagnosis of such conditions in terms of individual diseases or neurological malfunctions, to be treated by medication and training in order to return the individual to work and life ‘as normal’. An examination of the wrong-headed approach to what Petersen analysed as contemporary social pathologies, Enduring Modernity: Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory, seeking new understandings aimed at emancipation from social suffering.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSocial Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
Antal sidor186
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032714387

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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