[Review of the book The age of insecurity: Coming together as things fall apart, by A. Taylor]
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2025
DOI
10.69755/2995-2212.1350
Publication Title
Journal of Social Encounters
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
308-309
Abstract
[First paragraph] The lectures of social theorist Astra Taylor focus on the insecurities of social life and wellbeing in the age of late capitalism. The subtitle refers to the benefits of a society based on social solidarity and mutuality as opposed to one based on acquisitive individualism. The lectures may have gone over slightly better in Canada where there is more of a sense of this than they would in the U.S. with its ideology of the self-sufficient individual. Indeed in the U.S. context, individualism is so pervasive that readers may be slightly shocked to see that there is an alternative to an atomistic society.
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Original Publication Citation
McLaughlin, M. (2025). [Review of the book The age of insecurity: Coming together as things fall apart, by A. Taylor]. Journal of Social Encounters, 9(1), 308-309. https://doi.org/10.69755/2995-2212.1350
Repository Citation
McLaughlin, Michael, "[Review of the book The age of insecurity: Coming together as things fall apart, by A. Taylor]" (2025). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 103.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/philosophy_fac_pubs/103