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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bert van den bergh”
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  • Enduring Modernity

    Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness

    Edited by Bert van den Bergh, Sabine Flick, Kieran Keohane, Domonkos Sik ...
    Series series The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
    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’, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents

    Anxiety, Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease

    by Kieran Keohane, Anders Petersen, Bert van den Bergh ...
    Series series The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization
    This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity: anxiety, depression and Alzheimer’s disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
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  • A Philosophy of Loneliness

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by Kerri Pierce ...
    Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can belonely in a crowd or at home, outdoors or in an empty church, and countless songs have been written about the condition. For many people, loneliness can significantly impact their ... Read more

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  • The Ritual Animal

    Imitation and Cohesion in the Evolution of Social Complexity

    by Harvey Whitehouse ...
    A radical exploration of how rituals have influenced history over thousands of years. From infancy, we copy those around us in order to be like others, to be one with the tribe. Other primates will copy behaviour that leads to transparent benefits, such as access to food, but only humans promiscuously copy actions that have no obvious instrumental purpose. The copying of causally opaque behaviour ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory

    Thinking the Body Politic

    Edited by F. Vander Valk ...
    The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider the nature of social, cultural, and political activities. This collection of essays is the first to explore the relationship between neuroscience and political theory, with a view to ... Read more

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  • The Neuroscientific Turn

    Transdisciplinarity in the Age of the Brain

    by Jenell Johnson, Melissa M. Littlefield ...
    The Neuroscientific Turnbrings together 19 scholars from a variety of fields to reflect on the promises of and challenges facing emergent "neurodisciplines" such as neuroethics, neuroeconomics, and neurohistory. In the aftermath of the Decade of the Brain, neuroscience has become one of the hottest topics of study---not only for scientists but also, increasingly, for scholars from the humanities ... Read more

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  • Alienation and Affect

    by Warren TenHouten ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    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 – ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Race, Culture and Psychotherapy

    Critical Perspectives in Multicultural Practice

    Edited by Roy Moodley, Stephen Palmer ...
    What is multicultural psychotherapy?How do we integrate issues of gender, class and sexual orientation in multicultural psychotherapy?Race, Culture and Psychotherapy provides a thorough critical examination of contemporary multiculturalism and culturalism, including discussion of the full range of issues, debates and controversies that are emerging in the field of multicultural psychotherapy ... Read more

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  • Biopolitical Screens

    Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain

    by Pasi Valiaho ...
    Series series Leonardo
    An investigation of the aesthetics and politics of new visual media under twenty-first-century capitalism, from console games to virtual reality to video installation art.In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi Väliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. Väliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Contemporary Theories of Religion

    A Critical Companion

    Edited by Michael Stausberg ...
    Interest in theories of religion has never been greater. Scholars debate single theoretical approaches in different scholarly journals, while the ‘new atheists’ such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett criticize the whole idea of religion. For everyone eager to understand the current state of the field, Contemporary Theories of Religion surveys the neglected landscape in its totality.Michael ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Pathologies of Modern Space

    Empty Space, Urban Anxiety, and the Recovery of the Public Self

    by Kathryn Milun ...
    Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to the emergence of "empty urban space": homogenous space, such as malls and parking lots, stripped of memory and tactile features. Pathologies of ... Read more

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