The fear of insignificance
Subtitle: searching for meaning in the twenty-first century
By: Carlo Strenger
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780230108950; 9780230113756
Subjects: Existentialism; Existential psychology; Individuation (Psychology)
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: The years of the golden calf; title: "Just do it": the celebrity culture and the designed self; title: The defeat of mind: relativism and pop-spirituality; title: The drama of individuality; title: From "just do it!" to active self acceptance; title: Paring down life to the essentials: an epicurean proposal; title: Escaping the platonic cave; title: Religion and science: civilized disdain and epicurean laughter; title: Towards world-citizenship and a coalition of open worldviews.