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

Author:Matthew B. Crawford
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780374708443
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015-03-30T14:00:00+00:00

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THE CULTURE OF PERFORMANCE

In The Weariness of the Self, Alain Ehrenberg offers a cultural history of depression. He writes:

Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves … Depression presents itself as an illness of responsibility in which the dominant feeling is that of failure. The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.1

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