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Nervous States - Democracy and the Decline of Reason

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Nervous States - Democracy and the Decline of Reason

By William Davies

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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...Show more

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9780393635386

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Published year

2019

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1

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Nervous States - Democracy and the Decline of Reason

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Hardcover

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