The School of Life
How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times
How to Survive the Modern World: Making sense of, and finding calm in, unsteady times
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The modern world can pose challenges to our mental well-being, but "How to Survive the Modern World" offers a guide to navigating these challenges and forming a healthier relationship to the world. It explores themes such as our relationship to the news media, love and sex, money and careers, animals and the natural world, science and technology, individualism and secularism, and suspicion of quiet and solitude.
Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2021
Publisher: The School of Life Press
The modern world has brought about a multitude of benefits and pleasures, including technology, medicine, and transportation. However, it can also feel as though we have been plunged ever deeper into greed, despair, and agitation. Seldom has the world felt more privileged and resource-rich, yet also worried, blinded, furious, panicked, and self-absorbed.
How to Survive the Modern World is the ultimate guide to navigating our unique times. It identifies a range of themes that present acute challenges to our mental well-being. 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 toward a saner individual and collective future.
The emphasis is not 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.
Weight: 812g
Dimension: 162 x 228 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781912891535
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