...In this masterful and enlivening study of the ways in which the concepts of death and mastery have been elaborated in Freudian and post-Freudian social theory, Ben Fong has given us the means to think about human nature and human community now, under conditions of advanced...

... helps critical social theory engage with phenomena such as meaninglessness, isolation, and indifference. By severing alienation's link to a problematic conception of human essence while retaining its social-philosophical content, the book provides resources for a renewed critique of social pathologies...

...This chapter attempts to define the concept of media through sociological, technological, and action-theoretic frameworks, in crafting a general theory of media. In social theory contexts, the explications characterizing media yield an astoundingly heterogeneous composite, encompassing such things...

...This chapter gives a detailed reading of the Philosophical Investigations from the perspective of social theory. In this text, Wittgenstein continued expounding his theories about meaning; language and mental concepts; the relationship between interpretation and understanding...