searching for meaning in the twenty-first century /
Carlo Strenger.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
220 p. ;
21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The years of the golden calf -- "Just do it": the celebrity culture and the designed self -- The defeat of mind: relativism and pop-spirituality -- The drama of individuality -- From "just do it!" to active self acceptance -- Paring down life to the essentials: an epicurean proposal -- Escaping the platonic cave -- Religion and science: civilized disdain and epicurean laughter -- Towards world-citizenship and a coalition of open worldviews.