The Ruling Ideas

The Ruling Ideas How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable

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Ideas that are employed to legitimize and make us consent to authority and its hierarchies also disempower us, leaving us anxious, depressed, and discontent. They are constantly hammered into us by the media, by our friends and family, and by institutions. They also come to us by way of films, motivational speakers, business gurus, as well as in the actions we take in our everyday lives and in the experiences of who we are. In The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable, Ari Ofengenden examines many of these ideas, such as the entrepreneurial-self, the utility-oriented economic man, technological progress, virtues and values, as well as family values, God, nation and race. Ofengenden provides a deft analysis, on the one hand, of the beliefs we hold, the ideas behind them that make us consent to the social order, and how we often fool ourselves into believing these ideas; on the other hand, the author proffers a way to combat these ideas, to live without them and develop alternatives.

Book information

ISBN: 9781789049596
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Imprint: Zer0 Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.33
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 415
Weight: 470g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 21mm