Full Idea
Modern society has come to be viewed as something artificial, an aggregate of disconnected individuals that is held together by instrumental social contracts and monetary exchanges.
Gist of Idea
Social contracts and markets have made society seem disconnected and artificial
Source
Kevin Aho (Existentialism: an introduction [2014], 1 'Emergence')
A Reaction
This is all long of you, Thomas Hobbes! Aho is explaining the rebellion of existentialists against this - though existentialism strikes me as another variant of liberal individualism.
Book Reference
Aho,Kevin: 'Existentialism: an introduction' [Polity 2014], p.7