Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age

by Bruce Rogers-Vaughn

Book Overview

This volume offers a detailed analysis of how the current phase of capitalism is eating away at social, interpersonal, and psychological health. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary body of research, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn describes an emerging form of human distress-what he calls 'third order suffering'-that is rapidly becoming normative. Moreover, this new paradigm of affliction is increasingly entangled with already-existing genres of misery, such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349716332
• ISBN13: 9781349716333
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"