The Tyranny of Choice

A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair

Informationen zum Autor Renata Salecl Klappentext A brilliant study on the nature of choice and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair Zusammenfassung A study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. It explores how late capitalism's shrill exhortations to 'be oneself' can be a tyranny which only leads to ever-greater disquiet and how insistence on choice being a purely individual matter prevents social change.

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A brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair

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Renata Salecl

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A brilliant study on the nature of choice and how limitless freedom can lead to despair.

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A study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. It explores how late capitalism's shrill exhortations to 'be oneself' can be a tyranny which only leads to ever-greater disquiet and how insistence on choice being a purely individual matter prevents social change.