Society and social pathology : a framework for progress /: a framework for progress. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: R.C. Smith.
• Authors: Smith, R. C
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 Is Society Sick?; 1.2 Mounting Evidence of a Mental Health Crisis; 1.3 Beginning to Make the Social Connection; 1.4 More Than a Mental Health Crisis; 1.5 Drawing Systemic Links: The Pathological Character of Contemporary Crises; 1.6 The Need for a Progressive Philosophy of the Subject; 1.7 Why Social Pathology?; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 2: An Alternative Conception of Social Pathology; 2.1 Mainstream Theories of Social Pathology: An Introduction; 2.1.1 (i) Sociology of Health; 2.1.2 (ii) Mainstream Theory in Social Sciences; 2.1.3 (iii) Normativity. 2.2 Mainstream Social Science, Pathology and the Question of Norms2.3 A Critique of Erich Fromm's Humanism: Towards a Critical, Normative Alternative; 2.3.1 (i) Fromm's Radical Humanism; 2.4 Fromm's Critique of Freud's Instinct Theory; 2.5 Freud's Instinct Theory and Beyond: Towards a Multidimensional and Integral View of the Subject; 2.5.1 (i) Qualifying Statements; 2.5.2 (ii) Defending Freud: The Future of Freudian Theory; 2.5.3 (iii) An Alternative Multidimensional, Integrative Theory; 2.5.4 (iv) Concluding Thoughts; 2.6 Axel Honneth, Social Pathologies and the Legacy of Critical Theory. 2.6.1 (i) Pathologies of Reason2.6.2 (ii) Freyenhagen's Critique; 2.7 Towards an Alternative Conception of Social Pathology: A Multidimensional, Integral, Normative Approach; 2.7.1 (i) From Fromm, Beyond and Back Again; 2.7.2 (ii) Critical Normative Humanism; 2.7.3 (iii) Beyond Class; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3: History, Systems of Domination and Moral Norms; 3.1 Sick Societies and Human Behaviour; 3.2 Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited: Social Pathology in Relation to Systemic-Structural Cycles of Domination; 3.2.1 (i) Dialectic of Enlightenment; 3.2.2 (ii) An Empirical View. 3.2.3 (iii) Concluding Remarks3.3 Norms and Needs: A Critical Normative Humanism; 3.3.1 (i) Norms and Needs; 3.3.2 (ii) Normativity and Emancipatory Societal Principles; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 4: The Individual in Capitalistic Society; 4.1 Adorno's Philosophy of the Subject: Social Interaction, Developmental Psychology, Ego Colonization; 4.1.1 (i) Poststructuralist Appropriation; 4.1.2 (ii) Critical Theory and Needless Social Suffering; 4.1.3 (iii) Researching Social Pathology: The Critical Study of Suffering and Trauma; 4.1.4 (iv) Surveying the Root Causes of Suffering. 4.1.5 (v) Adorno the Critical Humanist?4.1.6 (vi) Adorno's Philosophy of the Subject: Developmental Psychology and Ego Colonization; 4.1.7 (vii) The Mediating Subject; 4.2 The Rigidified Ego and Social Pathology; 4.2.1 (i) Negative Dialectics and Issues of Ego-Formation; 4.3 Economic Coercion, Societal Reproduction and Subject Deformation; 4.3.1 (i) Subordination and Coercion; 4.3.2 (ii) The "Vicious Circle"; 4.3.3 (iii) Competitive Individualism and the Hardening of the Psyche; 4.3.4 (iv) A Return to the Global Prevalence of Mental Health Issues.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.22; Mental health -- Sociological aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; Political Science and International Relations; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Political Sociology; Critical Psychology; Psychopathology; Social Philosophy; Psychology, Social; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319503257; 3319503251
• Related ISBNs: 9783319503240; 3319503243
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 13, 2017).
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