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Nervous States

How Feeling Took Over the World

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Nervous States

By: William Davies
Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
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Nervous States is a compelling and essential guide to the turbulent times we are living through.

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.

©2018 William Davies (P)2019 Highbridge History & Theory Ideologies & Doctrines Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Popular Culture Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Social Psychology & Interactions Social Sciences Society Sociology

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"An absorbing book fizzing with ideas." (Observer)
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