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

by Carlo Strenger (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $142.28

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $122.05

  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.