Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method: Toward a Theory and Practice of Critical Socioanalysis

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Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method interrogates the historical intersections of political economy, technology, and anxiety. By analyzing and building upon the tools developed by critical theorists to diagnose the symptoms of modern lifesuch as alienation, anomie, the Protestant ethic, and repressionJoel Michael Crombez convincingly argues for a revitalization of critical social science to better confront the anxiety of life in modern societies.

While anxiety typically falls under the purview of psychology and its biomedical approach to treatment, here anxiety is situated within the totalizing logics of modern society. As such, Crombez provides a compelling, interdisciplinary roadmap to diagnose and treat anxietywhich he calls critical socioanalysisthat accounts for the psychosocial complexity of its production.

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Joel Michael Crombez, Ph.D. (2018, University of Tennessee-Knoxville), is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kennesaw State University. He works in critical, social, and psychoanalytic theory at the intersection of political economy, technology, and mental health. His most recent publication, an article with Steven Panageotou, 'The United States of Trump Corp' ( Fast Capitalism 17(1), 2020) theorizes the Trumpian model of governance.