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The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century C. Strenger 1st edition
The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
C. Strenger
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.
228 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 8, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780230108950 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 221 |
| Dimensions | 142 × 217 × 17 mm · 358 g |
| Language | English |