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001 2014043840
003 DLC
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008 150218s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014043840$z 2015933043
020 $a9780374292980 (hardback)
020 $z9780374708443 (e-book)
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042 $apcc
050 00 $aBF697.5.S65$bC73 2015
082 00 $a155.2$223
084 $aPHI015000$aPSY008000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aCrawford, Matthew B.
245 14 $aThe world beyond your head :$bon becoming an individual in an age of distraction /$cMatthew B. Crawford.
264 1 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2015.
300 $ax, 305 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"A groundbreaking new book from the bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft In his bestselling book Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford explored the ethical and practical importance of manual competence, as expressed through mastery of our physical environment. In his brilliant follow-up, The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior of gambling addicts, the familiar hassles of daily life, and the deep, slow craft of building pipe organs. He shows that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and becomes more comprehensible when understood as the coming to fruition of certain assumptions at the root of Western culture that are profoundly at odds with human nature. The World Beyond Your Head makes sense of an astonishing array of common experience, from the frustrations of airport security to the rise of the hipster. With implications for the way we raise our children, the design of public spaces, and democracy itself, this is a book of urgent relevance to contemporary life"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind by showing that our current crisis of attention is only superficially the result of digital technology, and certain assumptions at the root of Western culture are the root of the cause"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aSelf$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aIndividuality$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aDistraction (Psychology)
650 0 $aMind and body.
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/980/9780374292980/image/lgcover.9780374292980.jpg