1st Edition
Empty Suffering A Social Phenomenology of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction
Introduction
Part 1: Genealogies of Late Modern Suffering
1. From Naturalized Suffering to Futile Ownership – A Genealogy of Depressed Lifeworld
2. The Social Constituents of Fear – A Phenomenology of Negative Integration
3. Power from Indirect Pain – A Historical Phenomenology of Medical Pain Management
Part 2: Networks of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction
4. Depression as Social Suffering – Distortions of Communicative and Competitive Interactions
5. Networks of Anxiety – From the Distortions of Late Modern Societies to the Social Components of Anxiety
6. Actor-Networks of Addiction – From Reification to the Emergence of a Late Modern Hybrid Subjectivity
Part 3: Beyond Suffering – Spontaneous and Hybrid Strategies Dealing with Late Modern Social Suffering
7. From the Contingencies of Biomedicine to Secular Ritual Healing – An Online Ethnography of Depression Forums
8. Beyond Organic Solidarity – From the Paradoxes of Late Modern Welfare State to the Moral Challenges of Crisis Management
9. Ways Out from Suffering – On Quasi-Therapeutic Networks
Biography
Domonkos Sik is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, and alumni of CEU-IAS, Budapest-Vienna. He is the author of several monographs in critical theory, including Radicalism and Indifference.
