TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenthal,Edward C.
TI  - The Era of Choice: The Ability to Choose and Its Transformation of Contemporary Life
T2  - A Bradford Book Series
SN  - 9780262282581
AV  - B59.R67 2005 
U1  - 153.8/3 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Philosophy and civilization
KW  - Culture -- Philosophy
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Choice: More Than Wanting to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too -- 2 Behind the Scenes of Choice: The Historical Precursors -- 3 FreeWill and the Vicious Spiral of Choice: Who's in Control? -- 4 Many Branches, Many Worlds, and the Splintering of Reality -- 5 The Blurring of Reality -- 6 Postindustrial Society: Our Break with History? -- 7 Decision Making: Is There a Method to Its Madness? -- 8 Oppositions: Saussure, Structuralism, and More -- 9 Freedom and Existentialism -- 10 Risk: What It Means to Us -- 11 The Individual versus the Group -- 12 The Turning Point: The 1960s -- 13 High and Low Culture, Subjective and Objective Mentality -- 14 From Modernism to Postmodernism -- 15 Postmodern Manifestations, Self-Reference, and Beyond -- 16 Critics of Contemporary Life -- 17 Societal Problems and Conflicts: Where Are We Headed? -- 18 Have We Been Here Before? -- 19 Policy Implications, and Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - How today's cornucopia of choices has transformed our lives and our culture, from the foundations of scientific theory to the anxiety of everyday decisions
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3338623
ER  -