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Lost in Perfection
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Lost in Perfection

Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche
PaperbackPaperback
EUR54,00

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This volume examines the question of how the incessant demand for improved performance and efficiency, the pursuit of self-improvement and everyday multitasking affect not only relationships with others, but also with body and self.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-367-89726-0
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date06/12/2019
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 155 mm, Height 231 mm, Thickness 18 mm
Weight340 g
Article no.28164110
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A39047068
Product groupBU691
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Vera King is Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at Goethe University and Managing Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt a.M., Germany.

Benigna Gerisch is Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Intervention and Psychodynamic Counselling at International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany. She trained as a psychoanalyst and is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at Jena University and Director of the Max-Weber-Center, Germany. He is the author of Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity.

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