The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first CenturyIn The Fear of Insignificance Carlo Strenger diagnoses the wide-spread fear of the global educated class of leading insignificant lives. Making use of cutting-edge psychological, philosophical, sociological, and economic theory, he shows how these fears are generated by infotainment’s craze for rating human beings. The book is a unique blend of an interpretation of the historical present and a poignant description of contemporary individual experience, anxiety, and hopes, in which Strenger makes use of his decades of clinical experience in existential psychotherapy. Without falling into the trap of simplistic self-help advice, Strenger shows how a process he calls active self-acceptance, together with serious intellectual investment in our worldviews, can provide us with stable identity and meaning. |
What people are saying - Write a review
Review: The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-first Century
User Review - José-contemplates-Saturn's Aurora - Goodreads" " Carlo is a Swiss-Israeli psychologist, philosopher and existential psychoanalyst; he writes for several newspapers and lectures clinical psychology at Telaviv university.He's got a very own life ... Read full review
Contents
Our Historical Moment | 1 |
The Years of the Golden Calf | 9 |
The Celebrity Culture and the Designed Self | 23 |
Copyright | |
9 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century C. Strenger Limited preview - 2011 |
The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century C. Strenger Limited preview - 2011 |