Will Storr

Selfie (eBook, ePUB)

How the West Became Self-Obsessed

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Fascinating' Guardian
'Brilliant' Evening Standard
'Electrifying' Financial Times
'So interesting I literally couldn't put it down' Sunday Times

We are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular - flawless.

The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy.

It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, Will Storr takes us on a journey across continents and centuries. Full of thrilling and unexpected connections between history, psychology, economics, neuroscience and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447283676
• Artikelnr.: 48423620

Autorenporträt

Will Storr is a longform journalist and novelist. His features have appeared in various publications, including the Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Esquire, New Yorker and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. He has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. In 2012, he was presented with the One World Press award and the Amnesty International award for his work for the Observer on sexual violence against men. In 2013, his BBC radio series 'An Unspeakable Act' won the AIB award for best investigative documentary.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: A note on the text Chapter
Book Zero: The Dying Self Chapter
Book One: The Tribal Self Chapter
Book Two: The Perfectible Self Chapter
Book Three: The Bad Self Chapter
Book Four: The Good Self Chapter
Book Five: The Special Self Chapter
Book 6: The Digital Self Chapter
Book Seven: How To Stay Alive in the Age of Perfectionism Acknowledgements
ii: Acknowledgements Section
iii: A note on my methods Section
iv: Notes and references Index
v: Index

Rezensionen

Far more ambitious than its title might suggest . . . Selfie illuminates much of what feels peculiar about the world in 2017 . . . Storr has put in a formidable amount of work, he is irascibly good company, and he has something approaching genius for marshalling his material . . . This could be a pessimistic book. In fact, its insights are timely and welcome Richard Godwin Sunday Times