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A carregar... How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times (edição 2022)por The School of Life (Autor), Alain de Botton (Series Editor)
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A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing. The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich yet also worried, blinkered, furious, panicked and self-absorbed. How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental wellbeing. The book tackles our relationship to the news media, our ideas of love and sex, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism - and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases, the book helps us to understand how we got to where we are, digging deeply and fascinatingly into the history of ideas, while pointing us towards a saner individual and collective future. The emphasis isn't just on understanding modern times but also on knowing how we can best relate to the difficulties these present. The book helps us to form a calmer, more authentic, more resilient and sometimes more light-hearted relationship to the follies and obsessions of our age. If modern times are (in part) something of a disease, this is both the diagnostic and the soothing, hope-filled cure. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The modern world has brought us a range of extraordinary benefits and joys, including technology, medicine, and transport. But it can also feel as though modern times have plunged us ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation.; How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unusual times, taking on every subject from our relationship to the news media, to, our assumptions about money and our careers, our attitudes to animals and the natural world, our admiration for science and technology, our belief in individualism and secularism – and our suspicion of quiet and solitude. In all cases,
This book doesn't simply state one fact then move on to the next, but really attempts to dig deeply into our past, showing not only where we are, but how we got here. Full of thought provoking examples, interesting photos, and a uniquely designed look from every angle of each component of society, providing a lovely resource to turn to for so many questions we are seeking as time moves forward.
Though not without flaws, this book is one I would recommend taking the time to experience. You wont agree with everything that is said, and some of the observations may not align with your preferences and opinions, however, wandering through the past and the present side by side is. without a doubt. an invaluable experience that every member of society, young and old, should explore for themselves.
Thank you to netgalley and The School of Life for providing an e-copy for me to read and share my honest, unprompted opinion. (