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By Charles Lemert

Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, cosmetic surgery, healing tribulations, rapid id makeovers and fact television: welcome to existence in our more and more individualized international. during this impressive booklet, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert discover the tradition of the ‘new individualism’ generated by means of worldwide capitalism and strengthen a massive new viewpoint on people’s emotional stories of globalization.



The New Individualism bargains attention-grabbing, yet traumatic, bills of individuals suffering to deal with a brand new individualism reshaping the realm this present day. there's Larry, a high-tech govt ‘emotionally wrecked through success’; there's Ruth, a married girl in her past due fifties, typing real-time erotica in our on-line world; there's Norman, a recuperating drug addict contaminated with HIV, reinventing himself by way of accepting the lethal worlds for what they're; and Caoimhe and Annie, little women purely starting to discover the disorientating results of the recent individualism.


This e-book powerfully cuts opposed to the grain of present orthodoxies that view globalization as corrosive of personal lifestyles. Elliott and Lemert argue that today’s worlds aren't in basic terms dicy yet lethal. but there's wish, the authors contend, past the complexities.


Voted into the 50 Best Management Books For 2006 through The Australian monetary Review.

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