Ruling Ideas, The: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable

The ruling ideas, such as the entrepreneurial-self, the utility-oriented economic man, technological progress, virtues and values, and family values, are used to legitimize and make us consent to authority and its hierarchies, leaving us anxious, depressed, and discontent. Ari Ofengenden's book, The Ruling Ideas: How They Ruin Society and Make You Miserable, examines these ideas and provides a way to combat them and develop alternatives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 415 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Ideas that are used 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, our friends and family, and institutions. They also come to us through 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.

Ideas that are used 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, our friends and family, and institutions. They also come to us through 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.

Dimension: 216 x 140 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789049596