Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World - Couverture rigide

Davies, William

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ISBN 10 : 1787330109 ISBN 13 : 9781787330108

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 2018

Synopsis

**A Guardian and Evening Standard Book of the Year**

'An interdisciplinary masterpiece' New York Times

Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years? How can the history of ideas help us understand our present?

In this bold and far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing deep on history, philosophy, psychology and economics, he shows how some of the fundamental assumptions that defined the modern world have dissolved. With advances in science and medicine, the division between mind and body is no longer so clear-cut. The spread of digital and military technology has left us not quite at war nor exactly at peace. In the murky new space between mind and body, between war and peace, lie nervous states: with all of us relying increasingly on feeling rather than fact.

In a book of profound insight and astonishing breadth, William Davies reveals the origins of this new political reality. Nervous States is a compelling and essential guide to the turbulent times we are living through.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Davies is a political economist and sociologist who teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work explores the history of ideas, especially the history of economics, and how this helps us understand the present. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, Guardian, Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post and New Left Review. He is the author of The Happiness Industry: How the government & big business sold us wellbeing (Verso, 2015) and The Limits of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty and the Logic of Competition (Sage, 2014; reissued with a new introduction in 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787330109
• ISBN 13: 9781787330108
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible