The essays in this volume offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing debates in psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social philosophy. The essays take up the problem of alienation, ethnicity and postmodernism both in the USA and abroad.

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. The introductory essay 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 then take up the problem of alienation, ethnicity and postmodernism in the contexts of increasing economic globalisation and renewed racial hostility in communities in the United States and abroad.

Alienation, Ethnicity and Postmodernism - Three Problems For the Next Century, Felix Geyer
Alienation Redux, Richard Schacht
The Strange Career of Alienation - How a Concept is Transformed Without Permission of its Founders, Irving Louis Horowitz
the Fetishisation of Alienation - Unpacking a Problem of Science, Knowledge and Reified practices in the Workplace, David Schweitzer
"But What Can 'One' Do?" - Agency and Alienation in Economic Crises, Peter Archibald
Building Democracy in the New South Africa - Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Ideology, Mark Orkin
Immigration Alienation and Political Change - A Positive Case From Los Angeles, John Horton
Ethnic Revival and Conflicts - The Challenge of the 90's, Yehuda Bien
Tracing the Growth of Alienation - Enculturation, Socialisation and Schooling in a Democracy, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Alienation and Racial Discrimination in the European Union, Marie Macey
Postmodern Culture and the Revisioning of Alienation, Kenneth Gergen
the Self Strikes Back - Identity Politics in the Postmodern Age, Lauren Langman and Valerie Scatamburla
Alienation, Everyday Life and Postmodernism as Critical Theory, Mark Gottdiener
Post-ism or Positivism? A Comparison Between Theories of Reification and Theories of Postmodernity, Frederic Vandenberghe
Alienation, New Age Sociology and the Jewish Way, Philip Wexler
Cross the Border, Confront Boundaries - Problems of Habituality, Marginality and Liminality, Pirkkoliisa Ahponen
Individual, Time and Death in Contemporary Society, Maria Helena Oliva Augusto.