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Era of Choice : the Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
MIT Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; 1 Choice: More Than Wanting to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too; 2 Behind the Scenes of Choice: The Historical Precursors; 3 FreeWill and the Vicious Spiral of Choice: Who's in Control?; 4 Many Branches, Many Worlds, and the Splintering of Reality; 5 The Blurring of Reality; 6 Postindustrial Society: Our Break with History?; 7 Decision Making: Is There a Method to Its Madness?; 8 Oppositions: Saussure, Structuralism, and More; 9 Freedom and Existentialism; 10 Risk: What It Means to Us; 11 The Individual versus the Group; 12 The Turning Point: The 1960s.
- 13 High and Low Culture, Subjective and Objective Mentality14 From Modernism to Postmodernism; 15 Postmodern Manifestations, Self-Reference, and Beyond; 16 Critics of Contemporary Life; 17 Societal Problems and Conflicts: Where Are We Headed?; 18 Have We Been Here Before?; 19 Policy Implications, and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.