Tag: Discontents

Free Download Jack Simmons, "The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents: How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture"
English | ISBN: 1793607990 | 2020 | 290 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as "the new normal," and "in these uncertain times," that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and transformation. Cultural shifts generally involve multiple catalysts, but in this collection the contributors focus on the role changing discourse norms play in cancel culture, corporatism, the counter-sexual revolution, racialism, and a radically divided political climate. Three central themes arise in the arguments. First, that contemporary discourse norms emphasize outcomes rather than shared understanding, which support institutional and political goals but contribute to the contemporary political divide, and the notion that we are engaged in a zero-sum game. These discourse norms give rise to a form of Adorno’s administered world, such that we order society according to dominant opinions, which generally means those well acclimated to institutional and corporate culture. Finally, as Arendt feared, the personal has become political, meaning that the toxic public discourse invades private discourse, reducing personal autonomy and leaving us perpetually under the scrutiny of institutional authority.

Free Download Grant Gillett, "The Mind and its Discontents Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0199237549 | 2009 | 448 pages | PDF | 26 MB
The first edition of The Mind and its Discontents was a powerful analysis of how, as a society, we view mental illness. In the ten years since the first edition, there has been a growing interest in the philosophy of psychiatry, and a new edition of this text is more timely and important than ever. In The Mind and its Discontents, Grant Gillett argues that an understanding of mental illness requires more than just a study of biological models of mental processes and pathologies. As intensely social animals, he argues, we need to look for the causes of human mental disorders in our interactions with others; in social rule-following and its role in the organization of mental content; in the power relations embedded within social structures and cultural norms; in the way that our mental life is inscribed by a cumulative life of encounters with others. Drawing upon work from within the philosophy of mind, epistemology, post-modern continental philosophy, and philosophy of language, he tries to elucidate the nature of psychiatric phenomena involving disorders of thought, perception, emotion, moral sense, and action. Within this framework, a series of chapters analyze important psychiatric disorders, such as depression, attention deficiency, autism, schizophrenia, and anorexia. Along the way, Gillett explores the nature of memory and identity; of hysteria and what constitutes rational behavior, and of what causes us to lavel someone a psychopath or deviant. Updated, available in paperback, and more accessible than ever before, the new edition of this fascinating book provides readers with important insights into the causes and nature of psychosis. In addition, Gillett’s arguments have considerable implications for the way in which we understand and treat people suffering from psychiatric disorders. The Mind and its Discontents will be read by researchers and postgraduate students in a range of academic areas, including

Free Download Hephzibah V. Strmic-Pawl, "Multiracialism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Analysis of Asian-White and Black-White Multiracials"
English | ISBN: 1498509754 | 2016 | 178 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book addresses the contemporary complexities of race, racial identity, and the persistence of racism. Multiracialism is often heralded as a breakthrough in racial reconciliation; some even go so far as to posit that the U.S. will become so racially mixed that racism will diminish. However, this comparative analysis of multiracials who identify as part-Asian and part-White and those who identify as part-Black and part-White indicates vastly different experiences of what it means to be multiracial. The book also attends to a nuanced understanding of how racism and inequality operate when an intersectional approach of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation is taken into account. Ittakes a focused look at how multiracialism is shaped by racism, but ultimately reveals a broader statement about race in the U.S. today: that there is no post-racial state and any identity or movement that attempts to address racial inequality must contend with that reality.

Free Download Paul Jorion, "Humanism and its Discontents: The Rise of Transhumanism and Posthumanism"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030670031, 3030670066 | PDF | pages: 224 | 2.4 mb
This book explains that while posthumanism rose in opposition to the biblicalcontention that ‘Man was created in the image of God’, transhumanismascertained the complementary view that ‘Man has been assigned dominion overall creatures’, further exploring a path that had been opened up by theEnlightenment’s notion of human perfectibility.

Free Download Privatization and its Discontents: Infrastructure, Law, and American Democracy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108475671 | 233 Pages | PDF | 1.4 MB
In Privatization and its Discontents, Matthew Titolo situates the contemporary debate over infrastructure in the long history of public-private governance in the United States. Titolo begins with Adam Smith’s arguments about public works and explores debates over internal improvements in the early republic, moving to the 20th century regulatory state and public-interest liberalism that created vast infrastructure programs. While Americans have always agreed that creation and oversight of ‘infrastructure’ is a proper public function, Titolo demonstrates that public-private governance has been a highly contested practice throughout American history. Public goods are typically provided with both government and private actors involved, resulting in an ideological battle over the proper scope of the government sphere and its relationship to private interests. The course of that debate reveals that ‘public’ and ‘private’ have no inherent or natural content. These concepts are instead necessarily political and must be set through socially negotiated compromise.

Free Download Neil Gray, "Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle "
English | ISBN: 1786605740 | 2018 | 294 pages | EPUB | 1300 KB
The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century.

Free Download Sigmund Freud, Joan Riviere, "Civilization and Its Discontents"
English | 2002 | pages: 80 | ISBN: 0486282538 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
The struggle between the urgencies of instinct and the restrictions of civilization is addressed throughout the works of Sigmund Freud, and in Civilization and Its Discontents the theme is developed with particular richness and depth. This famous study explores the guilt that arises when personal desires clash with social norms, and it examines attempts to reconcile the conflict.