Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Cultural Climate Change 1
Part 1 The Solitary Self
1 Loneliness 23
2 The Limits of Self-Help 36
3 Unsocial Media 47
4 The Fragile Family 60
Part 2 Consequences: The Market and the State
5 From "We" to "I" 75
6 Markets Without Morals 85
7 Consuming Happiness 100
8 Democracy in Danger 116
9 Identity Politics 127
10 Time and Consequence 141
Part 3 Can We Still Reason Together?
11 Post-Truth 159
12 Safe Space 169
13 Two Ways of Arguing 183
14 Victimhood 195
15 The Return of Public Shaming 206
16 The Death of Civility 213
Part 4 Being Human
17 Human Dignity 227
18 Meaning 240
19 Why Morality? 252
20 Which Morality? 263
21 Religion 276
Part 5 The Way Forward
22 Morality Matters 295
23 From "I" to "We" 308
Epilogue 323
Further Reading 329
Notes 335
Index 351