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

By Carlo Strenger

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230113753
• ISBN13: 9780230113756
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"