Table of Contents

Introduction

PART I: Alienation and Affect in Historical Context

1. Alienation and Affect, From the Ancient World to Early Modernity

2. Alienation and Affect in 18th and 19th Century Social Philosophy

3. Alienation, from Hegel and Feuerbach to Marx and Engels

4. Alienation and Affect in the Late-19th and the 20th Centuries

PART II: Emotions Basic to Specific Varieties of Alienation: Contemporary Theory and Research

5. Emotions as Adaptive Reactions to Problems of Life

6. Normlessness, Anomie, and the Emotions

7. Self-Estrangement and Despair

8 Meaninglessness, Ressentiment, and Resentment

9. Cultural Estrangement and the Emotions

10. The Emotions of Powerlessness

11. A Summing Up, Competing Sociological Models of Alienation, and Issues in Alienation Theory and Research

About the Author

Warren D. TenHouten, Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles, is the author of nearly 100 publications, including Time and Society (2005), A General Theory of Emotions and Social Life (2007), and Emotion and Reason (2012). His interdisciplinary research interests have spanned the sociology of time, neurosociology, creativity, and life-historical and historiometric research methodology. His current work concerns emotions and the foundations of human rationality.