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How to Survive the Modern World - making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times (Hardcover)
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How to Survive the Modern World - making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R597
Discovery Miles 5 970
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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.
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