Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
In this sweeping and provocative work, political economist William Davies draws on a four-hundred-year history of ideas to reframe our understanding of the contemporary world. He argues that global trends decades and even centuries in the making have reduced a world of logic and fact into one driven by emotions-particularly fear and anxiety. This has ushered in an age of nervous states, both in our individual bodies and our body politic.Eloquently tracing the history of accounting, statistics, science, and human anatomy from the Enlightenment to the present, Davies shows how we invented expertise in the seventeenth century to calm the violent…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-63538-6
- EAN: 9780393635386
- Produktnummer: 27556683
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.7 cm 472 g
- Gewicht: 472
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William Davies is a political economist at Goldsmiths, University of London, the author of Nervous States and The Happiness Industry, among other books, and a contributor to publications including the Atlantic and the New York Times. He lives in London.
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