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The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century

By Carlo Strenger (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2011
ISBN
978-0-230-11375-6, 978-0-230-11766-2
DOI
10.1057/9780230117662
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5473746 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VII, 221\219
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36
Political Science;Political Theory;Political Philo

Description

This 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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