Alienation Ethnicity and Postmodernism

The essays in this volume offer the reader a broad interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing current debates in psychology psychiatry sociology and social philosophy. In his introductory essay Felix Geyer discusses how classical notions of alienation have been put to use to describe the dysfunctions within societies that are becoming sharply divided along racial lines and according to the disparities in power described by postmodernism. The essays that follow Geyer''s introduction then take up the problems of alienation ethnicity and postmodernism in the contexts of increasing economic globalization and renewed racial hostility in communities both in the United States and abroad.