Title:
The new individualism : the emotional costs of globalization
Author:
Elliott, Anthony.
ISBN:
9780415351515
9780415351522
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Abingdon, Oxon. ; New York : Routledge, c2006.
Physical Description:
x, 218 p. ; 20 cm.
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Individualism for beginners -- When Caoimhe met Annie somewhere in global space -- Was the free individual just a dream? -- Snapshots of individualism and the illusion of the good society -- Living in a privatized world? -- Coping with globalization -- On the individualist arts of sex -- Intimacy, eroticism and the newly lost individual -- The self and other ethical troubles -- Ethics, social differences and the truths of multiculturalism -- Surviving the new individualism -- Living aggressively in deadly worlds.
Abstract:
"In this book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the 'new individualism' generated by global capitalism, and develop a major new perspective on people's emotional experiences of globalization." "The New Individualism offers fascinating, but disturbing, accounts of people struggling to cope with a new individualism reshaping the world today. There is Larry, a high-tech executive 'emotionally wrecked by success'; there is Ruth, a married woman in her late fifties, typing real-time erotica in cyberspace; there is Norman, a recovering drug addict infected with HIV, reinventing himself by accepting the deadly worlds for what they are; and Caoimhe and Annie, two little girls only beginning to explore the disorientating effects of the new individualism."--BOOK JACKET.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005009267.html