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 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.

Author: C. Strenger
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/08/2011
Pages: 221
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230113756

About the Author
CARLO STRENGER Associate Professor in the Dept of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, Israel.