Nervous StatesHow Feeling Took Over the World

How Feeling Took Over the World

Cover Art for 9781787330108, Body Politic: How feelings trumped facts and what it means for democracy by William Davies
ISBN: 9781787330115
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 6 September, 2018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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. How did things reach this point, and what can we do about it? 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 book reveals the origins of the nervous states in which we now live.

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