The fear of insignificance: searching for meaning in the twenty-first century

This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel ofthe 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. CARLO STRENGER Associate Professor in the Dept of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. INDICE: Introduction: Our Historical Moment - PART I: THE DEFEAT OF MIND -The Years of the Golden Calf - 'Just do it', the Celebrity Culture and the Designed Self - The Defeat of Mind: Relativism and Pop-Spirituality - PART II: FROM THE I-COMMODITY TO THE DRAMA OF INDIVIDUALITY - The Drama of Individuality- From 'Just do it!' to Active Self Acceptance - Paring Down Life to the Essentials: An Epicurean Proposal - PART III: RECLAIMING OUR MINDS - Escaping the Platonic Cave - Religion and Science: Civilized Disdain and Epicurean Laughter- Towards World-Citizenship and a Coalition of Open Worldviews

• ISBN: 978-0-230-10895-0
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 228
• Fecha Publicación: 08/03/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido