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Loss A Modern Predicament

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Produktdetails

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Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

06.04.2027

Verlag

Polity Press

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336

Übersetzt von

Valentine A. Pakis

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5095-7341-7

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

06.04.2027

Verlag

Polity Press

Seitenzahl

336

Übersetzt von

Valentine A. Pakis

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-5095-7341-7

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Loss

  • Introduction: Loss as a Fundamental Problem of Modernity

    Part I: What Are Losses and How Do They Function?

    Chapter 1
    1.1 The Transience of Social Practice
    1.2 Negativity and Positive Attachment
    Disappearance and Loss
    Emotional Attachments
    Irreversibility and Uncontrollability
    Loss of Self and Loss of World
    1.3 Loss and Social Practice
    Practices of Loss
    Discourses and Narratives of Loss
    1.4 Types of Loss
    The Loss of People, Things, and Spaces
    Losses of Status
    Cultural Losses
    Losses of Stability
    Panoramic Losses
    Failure, Defeat, Trauma

    Chapter 2: Temporal Structures, Emotions, Arenas
    2.1 Practices of Loss as Temporal Practices
    Remembrance and Memory
    Anticipating Loss and Losing the Future
    Rhythms of Loss
    2.2 The Emotions of Loss
    Grief and Fear
    Anger and Indignation
    Shame and Embitterment
    Ambivalent Emotions
    2.3 Arenas of Loss and Third Parties
    Struggles Over Loss
    Guilty Parties, Winners, Observers

    Part II: The Paradox of Loss in Modernity

    Chapter 3: The Progress Imperative and Its Consequences
    3.1 Progress and Modernization
    3.2 A Radical Future Orientation: Progress as a Promise
    3.3 The Progress Discourse and the Philosophy of History
    3.4 The Progress Imperative and Its Embeddedness in Society
    3.5 Features of the Progress Narrative
    3.6 How Experiences of Loss Contradict the Progress Imperative
    3.7 The Suppression of Death

    Chapter 4: Between the Reduction and Increase of Loss
    4.1 The Four Effects and the Dual Paradox of Loss
    4.2 How Modernity Reduces Losses
    4.3 How Modernity Increases Losses
    4.4 Structural Mechanisms: How the Occasions for Experiencing Loss Have Increased
    The Regime of Obsolescence
    The Biographical Effects of Social Change
    The Marketization of the Social
    Cascade Effects of Social Complexity
    State Violence
    4.5 Cultural Mechanisms: Becoming Sensitive to Loss
    Expanding Expectations
    Emotional Sensitivity
    Processes of Singularization
    Historical Culture
    The Paradox of Freedom and the Elimination of Possibilities

    Chapter 5: How Modernity Conceals Loss
    5.1 Concealing Loss as "Undoing Loss"
    5.2 Narrative Relativizations
    The Illegitimate Loss
    Loss as the Price of Progress
    The Temporary Loss
    Loss as a Deviation
    5.3 Social Inhibition: Transformation, Exclusion, Discursive Purging
    The Structural Preference for Forgetting
    The Differentiation of the Private Sphere
    The Social Logic of Replaceability
    The Social Exclusion of Those "Unworthy of Loss"
    Stigmatizing Losers and Victims
    Sanctioning Negative Emotions
    The Erosion of Non-Modern Narratives of Loss: Cosmology, Tragedy, Epic
    The Vocabulary of the Emotionally Unattached Self

    Chapter 6: How Modernity Processes Loss
    6.1 Nostalgia: Aestheticizing Loss
    6.2 Risk: Economizing Loss
    6.3 Conservatism, Risk Politics, Victim Politics: Politicizing Loss
    6.4 Complicated Grief: The Therapeutization of Loss
    6.5 Diaspora: The Loss of Home and Community Building
    6.6 Religion: The Consolation of Transcendence

    Part III: The Escalation of Loss in Late Modernity

    Chapter 7: The Loss of Progress

    7.1 After the Boom
    7.2 Skepticism About the Future: A New Regime of Time
    7.3 The Future as Catastrophe
    Dystopias
    Scientific Disaster Scenarios
    Tipping Points, Normal Accidents, Scenarios
    7.4 Skepticism About Technology, the Economy, and the State
    7.5 The Reversal: A Positive Space of Experience, a Negative Horizon of Expectation
    7.6 The Regime of Prevention
    7.7 The Subjectivation of Progress

    Chapter 8: Surges in Loss
    8.1 Industrial Modernity and the Phantasm of Loss-Free Progress
    8.2 Six Late-Modern Surges in Loss
    Surge I: The Losers of Liberal Post-Industrialism
    Surge II: Losses from Climate Change
    Surge III: Political Regressions
    Surge IV: The Articulation of Historical Wounds
    Surge V: The Emotional Self and Sensitivity to Loss
    Surge VI: An Aging Society
    8.3 The New Quality of Losses
    The Amplification of Negativity
    The Irrelevance of Political Boundaries
    Patchy Loss Reduction
    The Subjectivation of Progress: Disappointment or Decoupling?
    From the Invisibilization to the Revelation of Losses
    Losses Caused by Depletion

    Chapter 9: "Doing Loss"
    9.1 Vulnerability and Loss-Based Identities
    9.2 Cultural Heritage: Protecting Things of Value from Destruction
    9.3 Restorative Justice: The Recognition of Victims
    9.4 Resilience: Bracing Oneself for Negativity
    9.5 Populism: Loss Entrepreneurship and Revenge Against the Winners
    9.6 Renunciation: Neo-Asceticism and "Less Is More"
    9.7 A New Culture of Mourning: Saying Goodbye and Integrating Loss
    9.8 Loss-Related Controversies

    Outlook: Repairing Modernity?

    Acknowledgments
    Works Cited
    Notes
    Index