Isbn: 9798195635954 - the condition of modern life (2 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Condition of Modern Life is a clear, direct examination of why ordinary life now feels so crowded, hurried, fragmented, and difficult to fully inhabit.Modern life promises convenience, connection, progress, and freedom. Yet many people move through their days feeling tired before the day has fully begun, distracted even when nothing is happening, available to everyone except themselves, and surrounded by systems that make life easier while making it harder to feel present. The pressure is not always dramatic. It often appears as a constant lack of margin, a mind that cannot fully settle, a body that stays braced, a home that becomes another site of upkeep, and a life that feels increasingly managed rather than lived.Kyle Campbell brings together many of the defining pressures of the present into one connected diagnosis. Through themes such as overload, urgency, performance, attention debt, disconnection, survival, maintenance, and the loss of inner space, The Condition of Modern Life examines what contemporary life is doing to the mind, the body, the home, and the self.This is not a book about rejecting modern life or pretending the past was better. It is about recognizing the atmosphere many people are already living inside, naming the pressures that often go unnamed, and understanding why so much of daily life can feel efficient, full, and functional while still leaving people strangely absent from themselves.…