Nervous states : how feeling took over the world
Davies, William, 1976-2018
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In this age of emotional political conflict, there is less and less to agree upon. Experts are no longer respected as impartial; public debate is reduced to attack and counter-attack; the boundary between facts and propaganda seems to be dissolving. We live in a world not quite at war but nor exactly at peace. In this enlightening, far-reaching and provocative book, William Davies explores how physical and emotional feeling came to reshape our world today, destabilising governments and placing us all on high-alert. Drawing on a 400-year history of scientific and political ideas, he shows how our sensations were once treated with suspicion, before being seized enthusiastically as a path to mass mobilisation in war. As we enter a new technological and political era, this title reveals the origins of the nervous states in which we now live.
Main title:
Nervous states : how feeling took over the world / William Davies.
Author:
Davies, William, 1976-, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2018.
Collation:
xviii, 252 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781787330108 (hbk)
Dewey class:
320.019
LC class:
JA74.5
Local class:
320.019
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2285475
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