Mind, Modernity, Madness - The Impact of Culture on Human Experience

Informationen zum Autor Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology at Boston University. Klappentext A leading interpreter of modernity argues that our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is making millions mentally ill. Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia! Liah Greenfeld! in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism! traces these dysfunctions to society's overburdening demands for self-realization. Zusammenfassung A leading interpreter of modernity argues that our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is making millions mentally ill. Training her analytic eye on manic depression and schizophrenia, Liah Greenfeld, in the culminating volume of her trilogy on nationalism, traces these dysfunctions to society’s overburdening demands for self-realization.

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• Authors: Liah Greenfeld, Greenfeld Liah
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.2013
• EAN: 9780674072763
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07276-3
• No. of pages: 688
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Philosophy of Mind, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Social, group or collective psychology