The Decline of the Individual Reconciling Autonomy with Community /

• Main Author: White, Mark D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Microeconomics.; Social policy.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Economics.; Social Policy.; Social Philosophy.

This book explores the steady decline in the status of the individual in recent years and addresses common misunderstandings about the concept of individuality. Drawing from psychology, neuroscience, technology, economics, philosophy, politics, and law, White explains how and why the individual has...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Individual in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Economics
• 3. Big Data, Algorithms, and Quantification
• 4. Individual in Essence, Social in Orientation
• 5. Balancing the Individual and Society in Law and Politics
• 6. Conclusion.