The Project Society

Today work, leisure, love, health, holidays, schooling and
self-development seem to be flowing together in one big, chaotic mess.
But in this book, the philosopher Anders Fogh Jensen explains that this
mess has its own order: the project. We are dealing with time, space and
each other in new ways - marked by temporariness, uncertainty, ad hoc
solutions, overbookings, cancellations and the absence of clear
expectations to the individual. The temporary 'yes' dominates our daily
lives as the passage from one thing to another has become a chronic
condition. The logic of the project can be found e.g. in dancing, in
administration, in health politics, in football, in our love lives, in
corporate culture and in what used to be referred to as private life.
The book delves into these highly diverse examples from everyday life -
and arrives at a contemporary diagnosis on that backdrop, describing the
possibilities and problems that are created by today's project society.