In 1960, Paul Goodman argued that the Fordist system that treated people as mere cogs in a machine had created a profound unhappiness in young people and in American society as a whole. More than half a century later, professor David Blacker recognizes that decades of neoliberalism have pushed young people beyond unhappiness and into a collective identity crisis. Overall, Americans no longer feel needed to do jobs that had previously anchored them in society and are becoming disconnected and purposeless. The proliferation of new identities is symptomatic of neoliberalism and its hyper-commodification and deregulation of everyday life. But it's not all doom and gloom: the de-anchoring process opens a new "world" of possibilities that Blacker details in the book's later chapters.

About the Author

David Blacker is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Legal Studies at the University of Delaware. He has written five books, including The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame, nearly 50 articles for academic journals and has given invited presentations at academic institutions and other venues worldwide, including Cambridge University, University of London, University of East London, McGill University University of Wales, University of Edinburgh and Columbia University. He was selected by the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study for its prestigious campus-wide MillerComm Lecture Series. Blacker's work has been widely reviewed in both academic and popular publications and he appears regularly on podcasts such as The Majority Report FM, for which he was selected by listeners as a "Best Interview of the Year." He lives in Philadelphia.

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