Domonkos Sik Knihy

Focusing on contemporary forms of suffering such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and addiction, the book examines various treatments and therapies associated with these issues. It critically assesses whether these interventions may inadvertently contribute to the overall problem of suffering in modern society, providing an interdisciplinary analysis that encourages readers to rethink conventional approaches to mental and physical health challenges.

Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forgetting of historical lessons and the weakening of a democratic consensus, as the spreading of populist ideas. A case study of public and private processes of memory transmission in Hungary reveals how the ambiguous relation to modernization affects political formation: the failures provoke populist reactions, while the successes result in political indifference. The combination of these two political cultures creates a dangerous compound including both the opportunity for the birth of antidemocratic semantics and their ignorance. The author analyzes the potential of such «incubation of radicalism» on a European survey.