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Nervous States - Democracy and the Decline of Reason (Hardcover)
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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, science, and human
anatomy from the Enlightenment to the present, Davies shows how we
invented expertise in the seventeenth century to calm the violent
disputes-over God and the nature of reality-that ravaged Europe. By
separating truth from emotion, scientific, testable facts paved a
way out of constant warfare and established a basis for consensus,
which became the bedrock of modern politics, business, and
democracy. Informed by research on psychology and economics, Davies
reveals how widespread feelings of fear, vulnerability, physical
and psychological pain, and growing inequality reshaped our
politics, upending these centuries-old ideals of how we understand
the world and organize society. Yet Davies suggests that the rise
of emotion may open new possibilities for confronting humanity's
greatest challenges. Ambitious and compelling, Nervous States is a
perceptive and enduring account of our turbulent times.
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