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020 _a978-1-5095-4276-5
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100 _aHan, Byung Chul
245 _aThe Disappearence Of Rituals
_bA Topology Of The Present
_hEnglish
260 _aCambridge
_bPolity Press
_c2019
300 _aVI, 104pp
520 _aUntrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity.
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