{"product_id":"9783032274748","title":"Medical Critical Theory From the Phenomenology of Embodied Social Suffering to Demedicalizing Emancipation","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe Politics of Mental Health and Illness\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMedical Critical Theory\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFrom the Phenomenology of Embodied Social Suffering to Demedicalizing Emancipation\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDomonkos Sik\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Movements \/ Phenomenology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMedical Critical Theory\u003c\/em\u003e introduces an interdisciplinary framework for understanding how illness experience and social suffering intersect in late modern societies. Drawing on critical theory, medical phenomenology, phenomenological psychopathology, and social epidemiology, Domonkos Sik examines how structural distortions shape mental health and physical illness, and how these insights can inform emancipatory praxis.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that contemporary critical theory has lost touch with pressing social pathologies, while phenomenological approaches remain overly individualistic. It bridges these gaps by synthesizing phenomenological accounts of illness with Frankfurt School traditions, offering a grounded and practical concept of social pathology informed by phenomenological perspectives on lived experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThrough detailed case studies of psychosis, depression, asthma, hypertension, and lung cancer, the book demonstrates how hostile, instrumentalizing, and disruptive intersubjectivities affect health outcomes. It also proposes practical strategies for mental health activism and social change, including medico-social forms of solidarity, illness communities, and a reworked Stoic ethic to counter activist fatigue.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume will appeal to scholars and researchers in critical theory, philosophy, medical humanities, medical sociology, and disability studies, as well as those interested in the phenomenology of illness, mental health policy, and the politics of medicalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eDomonkos Sik\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003e is Professor of Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, the alumnus of CEU-IAS and member of Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization network. He has published widely on critical theory, phenomenology, and the sociology of mental health, including \u003cem\u003eRadicalism and Indifference\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), \u003cem\u003eEmpty Suffering: A Social Phenomenology of Depression, Anxiety and Addiction\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), and \u003cem\u003eSalvaging Modernity: A Social Contract for the Era of Permacrisis\u003c\/em\u003e (2025). His work bridges continental philosophy and empirical research, with a focus on emancipatory approaches to mental health and illness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e03 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032274748\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e266\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47732220395660,"sku":"9783032274748","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032274748.jpg?v=1781061528","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032274748","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}