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

Carlo Strenger*

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages221
ISBN (Electronic)9780230117662
ISBN (Print)9780230108950
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2011

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