C Fred Alford: 5 books

Book cover of Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers

Broken Lives and Organizational Power

by C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story—high-minded individual fights soulless...
Book cover of After the Holocaust

After the Holocaust

The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction

by C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009

The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, an account of meaningful...
Book cover of Trauma and Forgiveness

Trauma and Forgiveness

Consequences and Communities

by C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors,...
Book cover of Transitional Subjects

Transitional Subjects

Critical Theory and Object Relations

by Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2019

Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is...
Book cover of Trauma, Culture, and PTSD
by C. Fred Alford
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016

This book examines the social contexts in which trauma is created by those who study it, whether considering the way in which trauma afflicts groups, cultures, and nations, or the way in which trauma is transmitted down the generations.  As Alford argues, ours has been called an age of trauma.  Yet,...
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