The Fear of Insignificance Searching for

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 human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.

Carlo Strenger is Chair of the Clinical Graduate Program of the Department of Psychology at Tel Aviv University. He serves on the Terrorism Panel of the World Federation of Scientists, the Seminar of Existential Psychoanalysis in Zurich, and the Scientific Board of the Sigmund Freud Foundation in Vienna, in addition to maintaining a part-time practice in existential psychoanalysis. He has published five books, including The Designed Self and writes regularly for Haaretz, The Guardian, Die Welt, and The New York Times.

Introduction: Our Historical Moment * Part I: The Defeat of Mind * The Years of the Golden Calf * “Just do it”, the Celebrity Culture and the Designed Self * The Defeat of Mind: Relativism and Pop-Spirituality * Part II: From the I-Commodity to the Drama of Individuality * The Drama of Individuality * From “Just do it!” to Active Self Acceptance * Paring Down Life to the Essentials: An Epicurean Proposal * Part III: Reclaiming Our Minds * Escaping the Platonic Cave * Religion and Science: Civilized Disdain and Epicurean Laughter * Towards World-Citizenship and a Coalition of Open Worldviews

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

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