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Says Who?: the struggle for authority in a market-based society

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Description for Says Who?: the struggle for authority in a market-based society Paperback. Translator(s): Shaw, David. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JFFT; JMH; JMS; VSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135. .

‘We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared … traditional authority is lapsing into brute force … and we ourselves must take the first steps towards creating a new social order.’

This was the trenchant diagnosis by Paul Verhaeghe at the end of his acclaimed book about identity, What About Me? Now he returns to investigate another aspect of our lives under threat: authority.

In Says Who?, Verhaeghe examines how authority functions and why we need it in order to develop healthy psyches and strong societies. Going against the laissez-faire ethics of a free-market ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Scribe Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781911344445
SKU
V9781911344445
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About Paul Verhaeghe
Paul Verhaeghe is professor of clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at the University of Ghent in Belgium, and is also in private practice. He is the author of Narcissus in Mourning, Love in a Time of Loneliness, and What about Me?: the struggle for identity in a marked-based society. David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, ... Read more

Reviews for Says Who?: the struggle for authority in a market-based society
'Remarkable ... What About Me? is one of those books that, by making connections between apparently distinct phenomena, permits sudden new insights into what is happening to us and why.' The Guardian 'A well-considered and fierce indictment of the rat race we call our lives and the toll it takes on us.' NRC Handelsblad

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