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Nationality
  
French

Occupation
  
sociologist


Name
  
Alain Ehrenberg

Role
  
Author

Alain Ehrenberg wwwlalibertedelespritorgIMGbinehrenberg0bin

Born
  
1950
Paris

Books
  
Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age

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Alain Ehrenberg, born in Paris in 1950, is a French sociologist.

Contents

Author of a PhD thesis of sociology Archangels, warriors, military men and sportsmen. Essay on the education of the strong man, he subsequently became interested in the anxieties of the individual in modern society, faced with the need for achievement and Autonomy and the loss of social signposts and support systems.

After being a researcher at the Edgar Morin Centre, Ehrenberg founded and co-directed the research group "Psychotropics, Politics, Society" at the CNRS. He is currently the director of the "Psychotropics, Mental Health, Society" Research Center (Cesames).

Works

  • (in collaboration with Jean-Pierre and Patrick Zylberman Yahi) Archangels, warriors, sportsmen and small perverse genesis of competitive sports and fate of physical violence: Policy Analysis of the promoters of the French and Japanese karate, implantation to the institution, 1953-1976, Organizing Committee for applied research on economic and social development, 1977–1980
  • The Military Corps: Politics and Pedagogy in a Democracy, Aubier-Montaigne, 1983
  • The Cult of Achievement, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1991
  • The Uncertain Individual, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1995
  • The Fatigue of being oneself - Depression and society, Odile Jacob, Paris 1998 (reprint pockets Odile Jacob) La fatigue d'être soi : dépression et société. ISBN 2-7381-0859-8. 
  • The Uneasy Society, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2010

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