Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society - Image 1

£56.76

By Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society

Social

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

£57 today · cheaper than every other day in the last 3 months

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 44 days • 44 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 44 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £57 (44 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £57 - £57

Price levels: 1 different prices over 44 days

Description

Bruno Bettelheim, now viewed by many as a pariah theorist, especially on the Nazi concentration camps, has been significantly misunderstood by most of his critics and admirers. In both cases, the subtlety and complexity of his narrative on the camps has not been fully recognized. This has resulted from an inadequate appreciation of his central thesis, that the inmate's struggle in a concentration camp is the extreme example of the modern dilemma of maintaining autonomy in the depersonalizing mass society, such as in the United states and Western Europe. This book elucidates, critiques, and further develops Bettelheim's pathbreaking and controversial insights on the behavior of concentration camp inmates. It provides the rudiments of a new framework for conceptualizing inmate behavior and is the first book-length treatment of Bettelheim's views on the dangers of contemporary society. The author accomplishes his goals in part by drawing from such social theorists as Michel Foucault, Anthony Giddens, Erving Goffman, Zygmunt Bauman, and Emmanuel Levinas, as well as psychoanalytically oriented thinkers such as Roy Schafer. The book concludes with a discussion of the significance of Bettelheim's findings about inmate behavior in the camps, and how we in our mass society can protect ourselves, resist, and fight back against the assaults on our autonomy, individuality, and humanity.

Product Specifications

Brand: By
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0275947254
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Psychology & Psychiatry > Social & Developmental Psychology > Social
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 January 1999
Listed Since: 07 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

By Autonomy in the Extreme Situation: Bruno Bettelheim, the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Mass Society

It has never been this cheap. We have no record of a lower price.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Routledge Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination

Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Total Domination: The Holocaust, Plurality, and Resistance (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

On Jean Amery: Philosophy of Catastrophe

The Human: Bare Life and Ways of Life

Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944

Polity - Lectures 1949-1968, Vol 2: Social Theory and Politics

A Materiality of Internment (Material Culture and Modern Conflict)

Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical: Thinking as Resistance

Adorno’s Philosophy of the Nonidentical: Thinking as Resistance

Routledge Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment - Book

Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History (Memory and Narrative)

Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History (Memory and Narrative)

Oxford University Press - Concentration Camps: A Global History

Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust

The Bloomsbury Companion to Arendt (Bloomsbury Companions)

The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault

On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Life and Norms

Unsilencing: The History and Legacy of the Bulgarian Gulag

Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment: Containing the Human (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)

Anthropology in the Age of Technology: The Philosophical Contribution of Günther Anders: 103 (Value Inquiry Book Series, 103)

Sich zeigen und die Welt zeigen: Bildung und Erziehung in posttraditionalen Gesellschaften

The Philosophy of Foucault (Continental European Philosophy)

The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance: 2nd, revised and updated edition: 2nd, revised and updated edition. With a Foreword by Jerry Steinberg

Binswanger and Existential Analysis (Foucault's Early Lectures and Manuscripts)