Book review: nervous states: how feeling took over the world by William Davies

Markaki, Lilly (2018) Book review: nervous states: how feeling took over the world by William Davies. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (30 Sep 2018). Website.

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In Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World, William Davies examines how feeling has come to reshape our world today, displacing the role historically afforded to reason and dissolving longstanding distinctions between the mind and body, between war and peace. The book provides a timely diagnosis of the contemporary social and political dominance of feelings over facts, writes Lilly Markaki, while locating hope in the discovery of a shared world inhabited by ‘feeling and thinking’ beings.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/09/30/book-...
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2019 11:49
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 13:47
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/91718

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