Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Does Alienation Have a Future? Recapturing the Core of Critical Theory Chapter 3 New Technologies and Alienation: Some Critical Reflections Chapter 4 Embodiment and Communication: Alienation, Genetics, and Computing. What Does It Mean to Be Human? Chapter 5 Authority Fetishism and the Manichaean Vision: Stigma, Stereotyping, and Charisma as Keys to Pseudo-Orientation in an Estranged Society Chapter 6 When Alienation Turns Right: Populist Conspiracism, the Apocalyptic Style, and Neo-Fascist Movements Chapter 7 Lonely Privilege in Despair: Aiming for Unfeigned Hope Chapter 8 Globalization, Alienation, and Identity: A Critical Approach Chapter 9 Alienation Incorporated: "F—- the Mainstream Music" in the Mainstream Chapter 10 The Final Indignity: The Commodification of Alienation Chapter 11 Alienation and the Cosmos Chapter 12 Alienated Communities: Between Aloneness and Connectedness Chapter 13 Loving Alienation: The Contradictions of Domestic Work Chapter 14 "Plain Talk": Producing and Reproducing Alienation
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman is a senior researcher at the University of Haifa in Israel. Currently a member of the Executive of the International Sociological Association, she is past president of the ISA committee for Alienation Research and Theory. Dr. Kalekin-Fishman is the editor of the International Sociology Review of Books and serves on the editorial boards of Current Sociology, Intercultural Education, and the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies. Recent publications include a critical analysis of Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Education for Immigrants and Minorities in Israel (Kluwer) and an edited volume, Designs for Alienation: Exploring Diverse Realities (Finland: SoPhi Press). Lauren Langman is a professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He is past chairman of the Marxist Sociology of American Sociological Association and current President of Alienation Research and Theory, of the International Sociological Association. His recent publications include a special issue of American Behavioral Politics devoted to the presidency in a television age, the social psychology of nationalism for the Handbook of Nationalism, and alternative globalization movements in Sociological Theory.
The Evolution of Alienation takes account of the postmodern debate
and the rejection in recent years of the concept of alienation,
critiques that rejection, and makes a strong argument for the
relevance for today of a broader, more cultural concept of
alienation. This is a strong collection, broad in nature and with
scholarly depth, that should appeal to a wide audience while also
finding use in undergraduate and graduate courses in theory, social
problems, and other core areas of sociology.
*Kevin B. Anderson, Purdue University*
For anyone who believes 'alienation' refers to the disempowering
awareness of being an outsider in a society where everyone else
acts as if they belong. This fine collection argues persuasively
that it is the society that doesn't 'belong', and that 'alienation'
plays a crucial role in helping us to understand why, and, with a
little help from our friends, to exchange our alienating society
for something far better. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
*Bertell Ollman, New York University, and author of Alienation:
Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society*
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