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Ego & soul : the modern West in search of meaning
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Title
Ego & soul : the modern West in search of meaning / John Carroll.
ISBN
9781582435534
1582435537
Published
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2008.
Physical Description
viii, 326 p. ; 23 cm.
Variant and related titles
Ego and soul
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 29, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Five theses
pt. 1. Battlegrounds
Work
Sport
Love
Lower-middle-class culture
pt. 2. Nihilism and consumerism
Self-hatred in high culture
The modern university
Shopping
Tourism
pt. 3. New dynamism
Democracy
The motor car
The do-it-yourself home
The personal computer
Nature
pt. 4. The future
The nightmare
if it all goes wrong
Resilience.
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