It's the American dream--unfettered freedom to follow our ambitions, to forge our identities, to become self-made. But what if our culture of limitless self-fulfillment is actually making millions desperately ill? One of our leading interpreters of modernity and nationalism, Liah Greenfeld argues that we have overlooked the connection between egalitarian society and mental illness. Intellectually fearless, encompassing philosophy, psychology, and history, Mind, Modernity, Madness challenges the most cherished assumptions about the blessings of living in a land of the free. Modern nationalism, says Greenfeld, rests on bedrock principles of popular sovereignty, equality, and secularism. Citizens of the twenty-first century enjoy unprecedented freedom to become the authors of their personal destinies. Empowering as this is, it also places them under enormous psychic strain. They must constantly appraise their identities, manage their desires, and calibrate their place within society. For vulnerable individuals, this pressure is too much. Training her analytic eye on extensive case histories in manic depression and schizophrenia, Greenfeld contends that these illnesses are dysfunctions of selfhood caused by society's overburdening demands for self-realization. In her rigorous diagnosis, madness is a culturally constituted malady. The culminating volume of Greenfeld's nationalism trilogy, Mind, Modernity, Madness is a tour de force in the classic tradition of Emile Durkheim--and a bold foray into uncharted territory. Often counter-intuitive, always illuminating, Mind, Modernity, Madness presents a many-sided view of humanity, one that enriches our deepest understanding of who we are and what we aspire to be.
發表於2024-11-23
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閱讀這兩個章節(精神分裂癥和躁鬱癥)是一段奇妙的旅程。讀書和相關主題電影很不同的一點在於:讀書的速度是生活的減速,你可以閤上書本,細細琢磨,或者嚮前挪移幾步看看之前到底發生瞭什麼;而電影的速度是生活的加速,或者是迴憶的速度,在你還來不及細細琢磨之前發生瞭什...
評分現代性給我們帶來很多東西——物質世界的富裕,精神世界的蠢蠢欲動,但與此同時,也給我們帶來瞭Madness(癲狂)。1961年,學術界有兩本對於精神疾病深具影響力的書:福柯的癲狂與文明;托馬斯Szasz的精神疾病的迷思(the myth of mental illness)。雖然一個誕生於法國,一個在美...
評分現代性給我們帶來很多東西——物質世界的富裕,精神世界的蠢蠢欲動,但與此同時,也給我們帶來瞭Madness(癲狂)。1961年,學術界有兩本對於精神疾病深具影響力的書:福柯的癲狂與文明;托馬斯Szasz的精神疾病的迷思(the myth of mental illness)。雖然一個誕生於法國,一個在美...
評分現代性給我們帶來很多東西——物質世界的富裕,精神世界的蠢蠢欲動,但與此同時,也給我們帶來瞭Madness(癲狂)。1961年,學術界有兩本對於精神疾病深具影響力的書:福柯的癲狂與文明;托馬斯Szasz的精神疾病的迷思(the myth of mental illness)。雖然一個誕生於法國,一個在美...
評分閱讀這兩個章節(精神分裂癥和躁鬱癥)是一段奇妙的旅程。讀書和相關主題電影很不同的一點在於:讀書的速度是生活的減速,你可以閤上書本,細細琢磨,或者嚮前挪移幾步看看之前到底發生瞭什麼;而電影的速度是生活的加速,或者是迴憶的速度,在你還來不及細細琢磨之前發生瞭什...
圖書標籤: 社會學 modernity 美國 社會學 理論 政治學 心理學 學術
sociology of culture. 當你理解到culture is symbolic reality時 好多事就豁然開朗
評分已棄書。哲學立場如此極端的書,還是第一次見……
評分作者關於nationalism三部麯的最後一部,印象最深的一點是作者推斷馬剋思在寫“1844經濟學哲學手稿”之際,人在巴黎,受到當地討論madness潮流的影響。換句話說,用madness的思路理解馬剋思所討論的異化(alienation)會發現驚人的相似點。很精彩的一本書!沒有提及任何亞洲國傢,但是作者有近期的文章談論這個話題。
評分sociology of culture. 當你理解到culture is symbolic reality時 好多事就豁然開朗
評分心理問題作為西方現代文化的問題,解決之道是從長時間段上迴歸西方文明認同。格林菲爾德風格霸氣。2012春
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