Why We Are Restless

Why We Are Restless
Author: Benjamin Storey
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691211124


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"No one seems to be happy with the present. That loathing of the present is understandable. The present moment, in modern life, is hard to love, or even to grasp. For the modern present is a state of constant motion. Perpetual moral, social, and psychic revolution is the price we pay for our unprecedented liberty, equality, and prosperity. Though we rightly prize those great political goods, having our world turned upside down every morning makes us all of us uneasy and some of us miserable. We exacerbate our unease by our failure to recognize it. With our ritual insistence that we are perfectly content to "go with the flow," we deny even the existence of our disquiet. We refuse to see what time it is, and we refuse to see ourselves"--


Why We Are Restless
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Benjamin Storey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-06 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"No one seems to be happy with the present. That loathing of the present is understandable. The present moment, in modern life, is hard to love, or even to gras
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Language: en
Pages: 259
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Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-06 - Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

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Why We Are Restless
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Benjamin Storey
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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