The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First CenturyThis book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system. |
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Contents
Our Historical Moment | 1 |
The Celebrity Culture and the Designed Self | 23 |
Relativism and Pop Spirituality | 47 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century |
| Author | C. Strenger |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 16, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0230113753, 9780230113756 |
| Length | 221 pages |
| Subjects | › › Philosophy / Political Political Science / General Political Science / Globalization Political Science / History & Theory Political Science / International Relations / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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