This book suggests that escapism – the desire to leave one’s physical or emotional circumstances for an ideal alternative – is a way to understand the social conflicts that structure our world. Considering this phenomenon across psychology, labour and cultural studies, the author engages with critic...

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1. Verfasser:	Sharzer, Greg (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Oxford Taylor & Francis 2023
Schlagworte:	bicssc / Political science & theory bisacsh / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Zusammenfassung:	This book suggests that escapism – the desire to leave one’s physical or emotional circumstances for an ideal alternative – is a way to understand the social conflicts that structure our world. Considering this phenomenon across psychology, labour and cultural studies, the author engages with critical theorists such as Lukács, Fromm and Marcuse to examine how escapism appears in our minds, workplaces and utopian imaginaries from fiction to music. In this study, escapism emerges as a constitutive feature of the late capitalist lifeworld – a feature that must be understood in order to create social change.Defining escapism as a new field of study, Late Escapism and Contemporary Neoliberalism: Alienation, Work and Utopia suggests that the phenomenon has much to teach us about contemporary consciousness and how we resist and reshape the edicts of neoliberalism. As such, this book will appeal to scholars of cultural and critical theory, social movements and political sociology
Beschreibung:	1. What is Escapism? 2. Escapism and Negative Humanism 3. Work and Protective Escapism 4. Dystopias and Utopias 5. The Uses of Escapism
Beschreibung:	198 Seiten 294 gr
ISBN:	9781032040912