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      Alienation and Affect

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      Alienation and Affect book

      ByWarren TenHouten
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2016
      eBook Published 20 December 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315772479
      Pages 232
      eBook ISBN 9781315772479
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences
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      TenHouten, W. (2016). Alienation and Affect (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315772479

      ABSTRACT

      Alienation has objective, social-structural determinants, yet is experienced subjectively as a psychological state involving both emotion and cognition. Part I considers conceptualizations of alienation and affect in historical context, emphasizing Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Simmel, and Weber. Part II develops a theory of the affective bases of Seeman’s original five varieties of alienation – normlessness, meaninglessness, self-estrangement, cultural estrangement, and powerlessness. The book argues that both normlessness and cultural estrangement manifest in two distinct forms and involve distinct emotions. Thus it develops the affective bases of seven distinct varieties of alienation. This work synthesizes classical and contemporary alienation theory and the sociology of emotions. It contributes to political sociology, and finds application in social psychiatry and related health and social-service fields that treat traumatized and highly alienated individuals.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      part |2 pages

      PART I Alienation and affect in historical context

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Alienation and affect, from the ancient world to early modernity

      chapter 2|11 pages

      Alienation and affect in 18th- and 19th-century social philosophy

      chapter 3|15 pages

      Alienation, from Hegel and Feuerbach to Marx and Engels 30

      ByHegel

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Alienation and affect in the late 19th and the 20th centuries 45

      BySimmel

      part |2 pages

      PART II Emotions basic to specifi c varieties of alienation: contemporary theory and research

      chapter 5|14 pages

      Emotions as adaptive reactions to problems of life

      chapter 6|18 pages

      Normlessness, anomie, and the emotions

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Self-estrangement and despair

      chapter 8|17 pages

      Meaninglessness, ressentiment , and resentment

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Cultural estrangement and the emotions

      chapter 10|20 pages

      The emotions of powerlessness

      chapter 11|12 pages

      A summing up, competing sociological models of alienation, and issues in alienation theory and research

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