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The Tyranny of Choice
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Artikel-Nr:
9781846681868
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.12.2011
Seiten:
184
Autor:
Renata Salecl
Gewicht:
162 g
Format:
199x131x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Renata Salecl lebt in London, wo sie eine Professur an der London School of Economics innehat, und in Ljubljana, wo sie am Institut für Kriminologie der juristischen Fakultät forscht. Sie war Gastprofessorin in New York, Michigan und Berlin und Mitglied am Berliner Wissenschaftskolleg.
We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freedom to choose can create extreme anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy and guilt. The Tyranny of Choice explores how late capitalism's shrill exhortations to 'be oneself' can be a tyranny which only leads to ever-greater disquiet and how insistence on choice being a purely individual matter prevents social change.
With wisdom, humour and sensitivity, Renata Salecl examines the complexity of the essential human capacity to choose which has become mired in consumerist ironies.
With wisdom, humour and sensitivity, Renata Salecl examines the complexity of the essential human capacity to choose which has become mired in consumerist ironies.
A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair
A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair