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The Pathology of Modernity

  • This chapter presents the psychological burden of living under modernity’s law of gravitation as the defining focus of much continental philosophy and social science. Most Western philosophers with any self-respect have their own diagnoses of present-day society, intended to capture the essence of living in modernity. Key thinkers such as Nietzsche, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, Adorno and Horkheimer, Fromm, Rieff, Eriksson and Mitscherlich gave their important contribution to individuation – the development of a unique self, socialization and subjectivation. Equally important is the question of failed individuation as these psychologists, sociologists and philosophers ask themselves whether modern man can manage without >God< and if the science-based Enlightenment’s promise of secular happiness would hold water.

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Author:Ole Jacob Madsen
Parent Title (English):Deconstructing Scandinavia's >Achievement Generation<, Cham (Palgrave Macmillan) 2021, pp. 19-39. [Online ISBN 978-3-030-72555-6] [doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72555-6_2]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2021
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Madsen_O_J_2021
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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