Ebook: What About Me?: the Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society

According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, disorientation, and despair. People are lonelier than ever before. Today's pay-for-performance mentality is turning institutions such as schools, universities, and hospitals into businesses, while individuals are being made to think of themselves as one-person enterprises. Love is increasingly hard to find, and we struggle to lead meaningful lives. In What about Me?, Paul Verhaeghe's main concern is.;Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Identity; 2. Ethics: from self-realisation to self-denial; 3. The Perfectible Individual; 4. The Essence of Identity; Intermezzo: society and disorders; 5. Enron Society; 6. Identity: powerless perfectibility; 7. The New Disorders: rank and yank; 8. The Good Life; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Notes.