The Evolution of Alienation Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium,9780742518346

The Evolution of Alienation Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium

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ISBN13: 9780742518346
ISBN10: 0742518345
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-08
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

Building on the Marxian view of alienation as the inevitable consequence of wage labor that divests human beings of control over their life forces, The Evolution of Alienation provides new insights into contemporary conditions. Contributors explore how alienation is fostered not only by television freak shows and shock music, but also by programmed schooling and even by some scientific theories. Others show that the contradictory relationships possible in some domains, among them, new technologies and domestic work, disclose niches of fulfillment that belie alienation.

Author Biography

Lauren Langman is Professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. Devorah Kalekin Fishman is senior researcher at the University of Haifa in Israel.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(22)
Lauren Langman and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Part I. Theorizing Promise: Shifting Views of Alienation
1 Does Alienation Have a Future? Recapturing the Core of Critical Theory
23(24)
Harty F. Dahms
2 New Technologies and Alienation: Some Critical Reflections
47(22)
Douglas Kellner
3 Embodiment and Communication: Alienation, Genetics, and Computing. What Does It Mean to Be Human?
69(22)
Matthew David
Part II. Trauma: Alienated Politics
4 Authority Fetishism and the Manichaean Vision: Stigma, Stereotyping, and Charisma as Keys to Pseudo-Orientation in an Estranged Society
91(24)
David Norman Smith
5 When Alienation Turns Right: Populist Conspiracism, the Apocalyptic Style, and Neofascist Movements
115(30)
Chip Berlet
6 Lonely Privilege in Despair: Aiming for Unfeigned Hope
145(34)
Rich Gibson
Part III. Alienation in Identity, Culture, and Religion
7 Globalization, Alienation, and Identity: A Critical Approach
179(22)
Lauren Langman
8 Alienation Incorporated: "F--- the Mainstream Music" in the Mainstream
201(26)
Karen Bettez Halnon
9 The Final Indignity: The Commodification of Alienation
227(16)
Marvin Prosono
10 Alienation and the Cosmos
243(10)
Douglas Porpora
Part IV. Alienation, Gender, and Everyday Life
11 Alienated Communities: Between Aloneness and Connectedness
253(16)
Roger A. Salerno
12 Loving Alienation: The Contradictions of Domestic Work
269(14)
Martha E. Gimenez
13 "Plain Talk": Producing and Reproducing Alienation
283(26)
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Index 309(8)
About the Editors and Contributors 317

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