The new individualism : the emotional costs of globalization / Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert.
"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 distu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Edition: | 1st editin. |
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 192 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415351510 9780415351515 0415351529 9780415351522 |