LEADER 04814nam 22007935 450 001 9911010529903321 005 20260107145743.0 010 $a3-031-91546-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-91546-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32154740 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32154740 035 $a(CKB)39265699100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-91546-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939265699100041 100 $a20250612d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSubjectivity and Neonihilism $eConstituting a Self in a Meaningless World /$fby Patric Plesa 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (368 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,$x2946-2460 311 08$a3-031-91545-3 327 $aChapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Subjectivity and Technologies of Self -- Chapter 3 Neonihilism -- Chapter 4 Relationality and The Ars Nihil. 330 $aSubjectivity and Neonihilism examines the current Western sociopolitical climate, revealing how it shapes who we are, how we think of ourselves, and how we create meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. Drawing on critical theory, this book looks at some of the social inequities produced under neoliberal capitalism and the ways these problems are internalized into subjectivity as the neoliberal self. Neoliberal cultural values are shown to reframe social inequities as personal problems and simultaneously create a sense of personal responsibility for solving them within the self, rather than addressing them externally. The author argues that current crises in meaning making and mental health have been exacerbated by the neoliberal values of individualization, responsibilization, self-governance, and competition. Divided into 3 parts, this book begins by outlining the emergence of subjectivity and technologies of the self. It demonstrates how the sociopolitical conditions that amplify social inequities intwine with the hyperawareness of the internet age to create an atmosphere of meaninglessness that is pervasive on social media and in internet culture. In part 2, the author further analyses this phenomenon, here labelled ?neonihilism?, as the process in which we confront meaninglessness through irony, questioning whether this might hold the intrinsic condition for overcoming this new nihilism. Part 3 examines the possibility for collective meaning making, solidarity, and collective action afforded by creating an art of nihilating the neoliberal self, or what the author terms ?the ars nihil?, via subversion and resistance. This book offers fresh insights that will be of interest to students and scholars of critical theory, psychology, philosophy and sociology. Patric Plesa is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, in Toronto, Canada. Dr Plesa?s research tackles critical issues in psychology from theoretical perspectives toward improving understanding, innovating interventions, and reassessing practices that affect mental health, wellbeing, and the environment. They are working on critical psychology, psychedelics research, existentialism, and ecopsychology. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,$x2946-2460 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aPsychology 606 $aContinental philosophy 606 $aCritical psychology 606 $aCulture$xStudy and teaching 606 $aCritical Theory 606 $aTheoretical Psychology 606 $aContinental Philosophy 606 $aCritical Psychology 606 $aCultural Theory 606 $aSubjectivitat$2thub 606 $aNihilisme$2thub 606 $aFilosofia contemporània$2thub 606 $aPsicologia crítica$2thub 606 $aNeoliberalisme$2thub 608 $aLlibres electrònics$2thub 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aPsychology. 615 0$aContinental philosophy. 615 0$aCritical psychology. 615 0$aCulture$xStudy and teaching. 615 14$aCritical Theory. 615 24$aTheoretical Psychology. 615 24$aContinental Philosophy. 615 24$aCritical Psychology. 615 24$aCultural Theory. 615 7$aSubjectivitat 615 7$aNihilisme 615 7$aFilosofia contemporània 615 7$aPsicologia crítica 615 7$aNeoliberalisme 676 $a320.51 700 $aPlesa$b Patric$01828719 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911010529903321 996 $aSubjectivity and Neonihilism$94397633 997 $aUNINA