The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Crawford, Matthew B.
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Crawford, Matthew B.

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance...
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Crawford, Matthew B.

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Crawford, Matthew B.

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

$30.85
Author: Matthew B. Crawford
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature.

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.

Author: Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/05/2016
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780374535919

About the Author
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."
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