The Failed Individual
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The Failed Individual
The freedom of the individual to aim high is a deeply rooted part of the American ethos but we rarely acknowledge its flip side: failure. If people are responsible for their individual successes, is the same true of their failures? The Failed Individual brings together a variety of disciplinary approaches to explore how people fail in the United States and the West at large, whether economically, politically, socially, culturally, or physically. How do we understand individual failure, especially in the context of the zero-sum game of international capitalism? And what new spaces of resistance, or even pleasure, might failure open up for people and society?
Global Failure and World Literature
Author: Karen Borg Cardona
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2023-10-24
While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences, failure is still broadly understood on an individual level, while its broader causes and consequences receive little attention. This book reconceptualises failure as a method for characterising and critiquing systems and institutions on both a global and a local level. It defines global failure as comprising global inequality, economic crisis, and ecological disaster, and as a condition which informs and is informed by localised failure. It examines the negotiation between global and local failure in narratives of failed quests by four contemporary authors: Cormac McCarthy, Julia Kristeva, Michael Ondaatje, and Basma Abdel Aziz. As a genre, the quest narrative is associated with the idea of hard-won success. The failed quest narrative, or the narrative of the failed quest, is therefore the ideal vehicle through which to examine the socio-political and institutional conditions of failure. Primarily a contribution to the field of world literature, this book is also relevant to those with an interest in the contemporary novel, failure studies, and the quest narrative.
Mastering the Art of Failure 100+ Proven Ways to Waste Time, Destroy Dreams, and Ruin Your Life Like a True Champion
Author: DR MDUSMAN CMgr, DBA,PhD LLM, MBA, MSc EMBA, ITC, FDA/BA(Hons) PgDPR PgDHE. Level-SLM 7&8.Level 7 ELM
language: en
Publisher: MD USMAN
Release Date: 2025-06-22
Mastering the Art of Failure: 100+ Proven Ways to Waste Time, Destroy Dreams, and Ruin Your Life Like a True Champion. The Ultimate Anti-Success Guide for the Lazy, Unmotivated, and Proudly Unproductive "How to Become a Legend of Laziness: 100+ Habits to Guarantee a Life of Regret, Waste, and Failure"