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"A stunning exploration of ambition that brings together literary, philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on this most human of passions. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from authors and thinkers that range from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, and from a history that moves from ancient Greece and Rome via Italian Renaissance to modernity, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-an insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power"--

Intro -- The Uncontrollability of the World -- Copyright -- Contents -- Beyond Control -- Introduction -- 1 The World as a Point of Aggression -- 2 Four Dimensions of Controllability -- 3 The Paradoxical Flipside -- 4 The World as a Point of Resonance -- 5 Five Theses on the Controllability of Things and the Uncontrollability of Experience -- 6 To Take Control or to Let Things Happen? -- 7 Control as an Institutional Necessity -- 8 The Uncontrollability of Desire and the Desire for the Uncontrollable -- 9 The Monstrous Return of the Uncontrollabl -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Intro -- Front Matter -- In Lieu of a Foreword: Sociology and the Story of Anna and Hannah -- Notes -- I Introduction -- 1 Sociology, Modernity, and the Good Life -- 2 The Basic Idea: Successful and Unsuccessful Relationships to the World -- 3 What is the World? Who is a Subject? -- 4 Method of Analysis -- Notes -- Part One: The Basic Elements of Human Relationships to the World -- II Bodily Relationships to the World -- 1 Being Situated in the World -- 2 Breathing -- 3 Eating and Drinking -- 4 Voice, Gaze, Countenance -- 5 Walking, Standing, Sleeping -- 6 Laughing, Crying, Loving -- Notes -- III Appropriating World and Experiencing World -- 1 Inscription and Expression: The Worldly Body as Designed Self -- 2 Media of Our Relationship to the World -- 3 Modifying from Without or Subduing from Within: The Body as Resource, Instrument, and Design Object -- 4 Self-Alienation: The Body as Enemy -- Notes -- IV Emotional, Evaluative, and Cognitive Relationships to the World -- 1 Fear and Desire as Elementary Forms of Our Relationship to the World -- 2 Experiencing World and Appropriating World -- 3 Cognitive Roadmaps and Cultural Worldviews -- 4 Roadmaps of Desire and Evaluation -- 5 Psycho-Emotional Grounding and Defining the Problem of Existence -- Notes -- V Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World -- 1 Mirror Neurons and Divining Rods: Intersubjectivity as an Anthropological Basis -- 2 Intrinsic Interests and Perceived Self-Efficacy -- 3 Resonance -- 4 Alienation -- 5 The Dialectic of Resonance and Alienation -- Notes -- Part Two: Spheres and Axes of Resonance -- VI Introduction: Spheres of Resonance, Recognition, and the Axes of Our Relationship to the World -- Notes -- VII Horizontal Axes of Resonance -- 1 Family as a Harbor of Resonance in a Stormy Sea.