NERVOUS STATES: How Feeling Took Over the World
by William Davies
Vintage, London
Paperback: 320 pages
Price: AUD$24.99
Reviewed by David Daintree
The more complicated the world becomes, the more books are written to help us understand and navigate it. So numerous and so diverse are books of this kind that a pessimist might suspect they have become part of the problem.
But Davies’ book is relatively creditable. His central thesis is set out in the introduction: “The modern…
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