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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B Crawford
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B Crawford
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B Crawford
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
US SRP: $20.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Copyright Date: 2016
Pub Date: April 05, 2016
Physical Info: 0.9" H x 8.2" L x 5.4" W (0.6 lbs) 320 pages
In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind.
We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self.
The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life.
Matthew B. Crawford is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a fabricator of components for custom motorcycles. His bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, which has been translated into nine languages, has prompted a wide rethinking of education and labor policies in the United States and Europe, leading The Sunday Times to call him "one of the most influential thinkers of our time."
