William Davies Bücher

Wir befinden uns in einer neuen politischen Ära, die viele ratlos zurücklässt: Wo bisher Zahlen, Daten und Expertisen Grundlage politischer Entscheidungen waren, sind nun Emotionen Trumpf. Ob Donald Trump in den USA, der Front National in Frankreich oder die AfD in Deutschland – überall greifen Populisten die Ängste der Menschen auf und sind mit ihren gefährlichen Ideologien auf Erfolgskurs. Doch wie konnte es dazu kommen, dass statt objektiver Größen wie Arbeitslosenzahlen oder Wirtschaftswachstum plötzlich Wut und Angst über unsere Zukunft entscheiden? William Davies erklärt unter Einbeziehung ökonomischer, philosophischer und politischer Theorien, wie es zum »Niedergang der Vernunft« und dem »Siegeszug der Gefühle« kommen konnte.

A poetic project of preservation and sense of place. Rich imagery and language dives deep into the lives of coastal communities in the far north of Norway, from debut poet, Melissa Davies

Hungarian - English Phrase Book (Magyar-angol társalgás)

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What just happened and how did we get into this mess? Since the 2016 referendum, the UK has been in a crisis of its own making. But there are more reasons for this than Brexit alone. A wave of disruption has hit political parties, the mainstream media, public experts and all kinds of officials. Along the way, there have been dramatic and sometimes shocking events: the burning of Grenfell Tower and the Windrush scandal, the rise and fall of the Brexit Party, Boris Johnson’s Conservative purge and his resounding election victory. The state’s response to the pandemic was a further sign of how abnormal things had become. As the ‘mainstream’ of politics and media has come under attack, the basic norms of public life have been thrown into question. Authoritarian and nationalist forces advance as liberalism recedes. This Is Not Normal takes stock of a nation that no longer recognises itself. Davies finds the narrative sense behind apparently chaotic and irrational events, extracting their underlying logic and long-term causes. We are witnessing the combined effects of the 2008 financial crash, the failure of the British neoliberal project, the dying of Empire, and the impact of the changes that technology and communications have had on the public sphere. How the nation revives from the economic and political shocks of the lockdown remains uncertain. This is an essential book for anyone who wants to make sense of the current moment.

When Jeremy Bentham proposed that government should run “for the greatest benefit of the greatest number,” he posed two problems: what is happiness and how can we measure it? With the rise of positive psychology, freakonimics, behavioural economics, endless TED talks, the happiness manifesto, the Happiness Index, the tyranny of customer service, the emergence of the quantified self movement, we have become a culture obsessed with measuring our supposed satisfaction. In anecdotes that include the Buddhist monk who lectured the business leaders of the world at Davos, why the Nike Fuel band makes us more worried about our fitness, how parts of our city are being rebuilt in response to scientific studies of oxytocin levels in our brain, and what a survey from Radisson hotels—that proves that 62% of us believe that well-being is a luxury worth more than work or a good relationship—really tells us about the way we measure ourselves, and continually find ourselves wanting. The pursuit of happiness only makes us sad—and the rise in depression and anxiety proves it.