: Alain Ehrenberg
: Weariness of the Self Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age
: MQUP
: 9780773577152
: 1
: CHF 59.80
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: Sonstiges
: English
: 345
: DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF
Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success is attributed to, and expected of, the autonomous individual. In so doing, he provides both a novel and convincing description of the illness that clarifies the intertwining relationship between its diagnostic history and changes in social norms and values.