Deadly Worlds The Emotional Costs of

Deadly Worlds offers an original analysis of one of the unsolved questions of the current age: what are the emotional costs and possibilities of globalization? Lemert and Elliott challenge the dominant interpretations of the late modern world by delving below the surface of cultural and economic theories to explore theories of the new individualism. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Charles Lemert is Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut Anthony Elliott is professor of social and political theory at the University of the West of England

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

1

(14)

1 INDIVIDUALISM FOR BEGINNERS

15

(24)

When Caoimhe met Annie Somewhere in Global Space

2 WAS THE FREE INDIVIDUAL JUST A DREAM?

39

(32)

Snapshots of Individualism and the Illusion of the Good Society

3 LIVING IN A PRIVATIZED WORLD

71

(24)

Coping with Globalization

4 ON THE INDIVIDUALIST ARTS OF SEX

95

(22)

Intimacy, Eroticism, and the Newly Lost Individual

5 THE SELF AND OTHER ETHICAL TROUBLES

117

(24)

Ethics, Social Differences, and the Truths of Multiculturalism

6 SURVIVING THE NEW INDIVIDUALISM

141

(34)

Living Aggressively in Deadly Worlds

Notes and Sources

175

(16)

Index

191

(6)

About the Authors

197

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