Nervous States
How Feeling Took Over the World
by William Davies

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Author(s)

William Davies

Publication

London : Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage, 2018

Scope

252 Pages, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781787330108

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William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing 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.

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Keywords

sociology , neo liberalism , democracy , populism , post-truth era

Location

Cabinet 11 - 6: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index