The Fear of Insignificance

The Fear of Insignificance
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 219
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ISBN-13 : 9780230117662
ISBN-10 : 023011766X
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Book Synopsis The Fear of Insignificance by : C. Strenger

Download or read book The Fear of Insignificance written by C. Strenger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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