Date 07 October 2020
Pages 352
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 20.90
EAN 9782246822424
Publisher Website www.grasset.fr

The Era of the Individual Tyrant

Author Éric Sadin
Publisher Grasset
GENRE Essay
Keywords Social network
By placing everyone at the center of the world, new technologies continue to atomize society. Eric Sadin evokes the excesses of a consumerist culture, whose primary concern is consuming the opinions of others.

Riots, social tensions, a collapse of trust, and mutual recriminations: in recent years, levels of popular anger have been steadily rising in our societies as the legitimacy of governments is called into question. But there is something unprecedented about the sheer vehemence of this anger, expressed as it is by a new kind of agent: the individual tyrant. In this brilliant book, the philosopher Eric Sadin offers a unique, ground-breaking and tragically compelling historical, political, and socio-economic analysis of the collapse of our communal world.