Can the poor think?
Malcolm Bull: ‘Nervous States’, 4 July 2019
Nervous States: How Feeling Took Over the World
by William Davies.
Cape, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2018,978 1 78733 010 8 Show More
by William Davies.
Cape, 272 pp., £16.99, September 2018,
“... libertarian paternalism of the Cameron and Obama governments gave us Brexit and Trump instead. As William Davies observes in Nervous States, ‘democracies are being transformed by the power of feeling,’ and ‘nostalgia, resentment, anger and fear’ appear to be taking over the world. There has been endless speculation about the reasons for ... ”