The Anxiety Society: How politics, time and mental health are linked

Abstract

The book highlights the unexpected effects of capitalism: society has lost the ability to tell coherent stories about itself - we are in the grip of an ever-accelerating economy that doesn't like endings, it has to grow further and further. And with it, anxiety and depression grow...

Keywords

• late modernity
• social acceleration
• social subsystems
• anxiety
• public space
• narrativity