The Mind-Body Politic

1.      Chapter 1. Introduction: Political Philosophy of Mind

1.1. The Philosophy of Mind

2.      Chapter 2. Three Theses Unpacked: Mind-Shaping, Collective Sociopathy, and Collective Wisdom

2.1. The Mind-Shaping Thesis

2.1.1.  Its Meaning

2.1.2.  Enactivism, Affective Framing, and Habits

2.1.3.  Affordances and Enculturated Expectations

2.1.4.  Its Truth

2.2. The Collective Wisdom Thesis

2.2.1.  Its Meaning

2.2.2.  Its Truth

2.3.1.  Its Meaning

2.3.2.  Its Truth

2.4. Mind-Shaping Inside Sociodynamic Systems

3.      Chapter 3. What is a Destructive, Deforming Institution?

3.1. True Needs, False Needs, False Freedom of Choice, and Collective Sociopathy

3.2. Eight Criteria, How To Make Them Vivid, and How To Explain Them

3.2.1.  Commodification 

3.2.2.  Mechanization

3.2.3.  Coercion 

3.2.5.  Reversal of Affect 

3.2.6.  Loss of Autonomy

3.2.7.  Incentivization of Desires

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3.3. How To Prove These Claims

4.1. Higher Education as The Higher Commodification

4.1.1.  "Mind Invasion" and Collective Sociopathy

4.1.2.  Neoliberal U

4.1.3.  The Affective Pull of Neoliberal Ideology

4.2. Neoliberal U and the Eight Criteria of Collective Sociopathy

            4.2.1.  Commodification

4.2.2.  Mechanization

4.2.3.  Coercion

4.2.4.  Divided Mind

4.2.5.  Reversal of Affect

4.2.7.  Incentivization of Desires

4.2.8.  False Consciousness

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5.      Chapter 5. Case-Study II: Mental Health Treatment in Neoliberal Nation-States

5.1. Dr Bigbrother: The Medical Model and Neoliberalism

5.2. Doing It By the DSM: Mental Healthcare and the Eight Criteria of Collective Sociopathy

5.2.1.  The Commodification of Mental "Health" and "Normalcy"

5.2.3.  Coercion: "Governmentality" in the Realm of Mental Health

5.2.3a.  Excursus: The Rhetoric of "Responsibilization," "Resilience," and "Recovery"

5.2.3b.  Excursus Continued: The Resilient Student

5.2.4.  Divided Mind

5.2.5.  Reversal of Affect: Alienation

5.2.6.  Loss of Autonomy

5.2.7.  Incentivization of Desires   

5.2.8.  False Consciousness

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6.      Chapter 6. What is a Constructive, Enabling Institution?

6.1. Negating and Reformulating the Eight Criteria

            6.1.1.  Anti-Commodifying or Self-Realizing 

            6.1.3.  Anti-Coercive or Dignitarian 

6.1.4. and 6.1.5.  Anti-Mind-Dividing or Integrative, and Anti-Affect-Reversing or Authenticating

6.1.7.   Anti-Desire-Incentivizing or True-Desire-Promoting

6.1.8.  Anti-False-Consciousness-Producing or Critical-Consciousness-Priming

6.2. Affording Flexible Habits of Mind

6.3 How to Expunge Our Inner Hobbes

6.4. Real-World Examples of Collectively Wise Institutions

            6.4.1.  Disaster Communities

            6.4.2.  Various Phases in the History of the American Left

7.      Chapter 7. How To Design a Constructive, Enabling Institution

7.2. The Cognitivist Approach to Transformative Learning

7.3. Enactivism, Essential Embodiment, and Affective Framing

7.4. The Neurobiological Dynamics of Affective Reframing

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8.      Chapter 8. Conclusion: Cognitive Walls, Cognitive-Affective Revolution, and Real-World Utopias