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Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World

Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World

by WilliamDavies (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 20 Sep 2018
ISBN 10: 1787330109
ISBN 13: 9781787330108
Book Overview: A dazzlingly original analysis of our times by one of Britain's most exciting thinkers

Media Reviews
An insightful and well-written book that explores the deep roots of the current crisis of expertise. The scientific community has been founded on the basis of separating reason from feeling. But now science itself has exposed this separation as an untenable myth. So where do we go from here? -- Yuval Noah Harari
Engrossing... Davies is a lively writer -- Alan Ryan * Literary Review *
Brilliant -- Matthew d'Ancona * Guardian *
William Davies brilliantly explains that we can no longer sensibly look for hope in ever more technological achievements, especially those that subjugate nature to our will. As our times slowdown we have to confront our fears, our pain and our resentment. We have to redefine hope. -- Danny Dorling
Author Bio
William Davies teaches political economy and sociology 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. He is the author of The Happiness Industry and The Limits of Neoliberalism, and regularly writes for the Guardian and London Review of Books.