Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART 1
From Traditional to Modern Society: The Critical Method of Early Modern Social Thought
 Introduction to Part 1

1 Scenic Landscape 1
1 Traditional Life and the Totalizing Logic of Christianity
2 A Revolution in Space and of the Mind
3 Enlightenment and the Birth of Modernity

2 Critical Methods 1
1 From Philosophy to Social Theory: (Hegel, Feuerbach and) Marx’s Critical Method and the Totalizing Logic of Capital
2 The Individual, the Social, and the Knot: Toward the Durkheimian Symptom of Anomie
3 Totalizing the Mind and Spirit: Weber and the Unholy Union of Religion and Capital
4 From Psychoanalysis to Socioanalysis: Anxiety, Repression, and Talk Therapy in Freud
Conclusion to Part 1

PART 2
Technology, Modern Wars, and the Rise of Consumer Culture: The Frankfurt School Revisits the Critical Method
Introduction to Part 2

3 Scenic Landscape 2
1 The Totalizing Logic of Capital Comes of Age: The Path to Technological Embeddedness and Mass Society
2 The Darker Side of Modernity: World War

4 Critical Methods 2
1 The Psychosocial Origins of the Frankfurt School
2 From the Critical Method to Critical Theory and Negative Dialectics
3 A Lesson for Socioanalysis: Anxiety and the Social Vicissitudes of Technology and War in Mass Society
Conclusion to Part 2

PART 3
Anxiety-Dreams of Posthuman Futures: Sorting through the Discourses of 21st Century Life
Introduction to Part 3

5 Scenic Landscape 3
1 The Postmodern Rupture in Modern Society
2 We Are All Cyborgs Now: Life in the Mass
3 The Coming Tide: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, and Space Colonization

6 Critical Methods 3
1 Critical Socioanalysis: Setting Up
2 Discourses of the Psyche and the Self: A Lacanian Framework
3 The Other Side of Socioanalysis: A Guide for Talk Therapy
Conclusion to Part 3

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index