Introduction: Modernity’s Challenges to Self Part I: New Patterns of Social Experience
1. Karl Marx: Alienation under Capitalism
2. Emile Durkheim: The Search for Social Connection
3. Max Weber: Rationalization’s Iron Grip
4. Georg Simmel: Marginality as the Modern Condition
5. Erich Kahler: Split from Without ? and Within
6. Robert Nisbet: The Eclipse of Community
7. Robert Bellah: Communitarianism and Religion in a Post-Traditional World
8. Daniel Bell: Capitalism’s Contradictions
9. Hannah Arendt: Politics as Possibility Part II: Culture Transformed
10. Johan Huizinga: The Decline of the Play Spirit
11. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno: The Perils of Enlightenment
12. David Riesman: Seeking Autonomy in the Other-Directed Society
13. Daniel Boorstin: Extravagant Expectations
14. Lewis Mumford: In the Shadows of the Machine
15. Jane Jacobs: Cities Where People Matter
16. Marshall Berman: Swimming in the Maelstrom
17. Christopher Lasch: Cultural Narcissism
18. Juliet Schor: The Work and Spend Cycle Part III: Forms of Inequality
18. C. Wright Mills: Social Structure, Elites, and Masses
19. Michel Foucault: Knowledge as Control
20. Simone De Beauvoir: Woman as Other
21. W.E.B. Du Bois: Divided Consciousness
22. Franz Fanon: The Long Reach of Colonialism
23. Margaret Mead: The Enculturation of Gender
24. Lillian Rubin: Worlds of Pain
25. Betty Friedan: Responding to Traps of Gender and Age
26. William Julius Wilson: Dilemmas of the Truly Disadvantaged Part IV: Modern Selves
27. Sigmund Freud: Repression and Other Conflicts
28. Erich Fromm: Society Against Self
29. Herbert Marcuse: Resistance in the Affluent Society
30. Norman O. Brown: Embracing Life ? and Death
31. Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea ? and Reorientation
32. Erving Goffman: Managing Modern Identities
33. Arlie Hochschild: Commercialized Feeling
34. Anthony Giddens: Challenges to Self in a Runaway World
35. Kenneth Gergen: Saturated Selves
36. Martin Buber: Personhood as Dialogue Conclusion: An Anatomy of Modern Discontent