Enduring Modernity

Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness

By: Bert van den Bergh (Editor), Sabine Flick (Editor), Kieran Keohane (Editor), Domonkos Sik (Editor)

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Paperback | 30 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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204 Pages

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This book brings together the work of the late Anders Petersen, presenting his exciting and innovative transdisciplinary paradigm that offers insights into anxiety, depression and grief, and the connection between these conditions and the failings of contemporary civilization that give rise to them. With attention to the ways in which neoliberal hegemony and its imperatives of 'performance', 'evaluation', 'self-realisation', 'resilience' and 'flexibility' lead to self-criticism on the part of those who do not measure up to the prevailing criteria, resulting in ailments of mental health, it challenges the paradigmatic diagnosis of such conditions in terms of individual diseases or neurological malfunctions, to be treated by medication and training in order to return the individual to work and life 'as normal'. An examination of the wrong-headed approach to what Petersen analysed as contemporary social pathologies, Enduring Modernity: Depression, Anxiety and Grief in the Age of Voicelessness will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory, seeking new understandings aimed at emancipation from social suffering.

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