Review of The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

[First paragraph] The lectures of social theorist Astra Taylor focus on the insecurities of social life and wellbeing in the age of late capitalism. The subtitle refers to the benefits of a society based on social solidarity and mutuality as opposed to one based on acquisitive individualism. The lectures may have gone over slightly better in Canada where there is more of a sense of this than they would in the U.S. with its ideology of the self-sufficient individual. Indeed in the U.S. context, individualism is so pervasive that readers may be slightly shocked to see that there is an alternative to an atomistic society.