Individualism for beginners - When Caoimhe met Annie somewhere in global space - Was the free individual just a dream? - Snapshots of individualism and the illusion of the good society - Living in a privatized world? - Coping with globalization - On the individualist arts of sex - Intimacy, eroticism and the newly lost individual -- The self and other ethical troubles -- Ethics, social differences and the truths of multiculturalism -- Surviving the new individualism -- Living aggressively in deadly worlds.