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Against Happiness - In Praise of Melancholy by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Fiction
Americans are addicted to happiness. When we're not popping pills, we leaf through scientific studies that take for granted our quest for happiness, or read self-help books by everyone from armchair philosophers and clinical psychologists to the Dalai Lama on how to achieve a trouble-free life: Stumblin ...Show more
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Health and Wellbeing
Whether we admit it or not, we're fascinated by evil. Dark fantasies, morbid curiosities, Schadenfreude: as conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our wicked side, and we succumb to them at our own peril. But we're still compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, ...Show more
Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Politics
Morbid curiosity, morose delectation, schadenfreude. As conventional wisdom has it, these are the symptoms of our dark side; we succumb to them at our own peril. And yet we are compelled to look whenever we pass a grisly accident on the highway, and there's no slaking our thirst for gory entertainments ...Show more
How to Be Weird: An Off-Kilter Guide to Living a One-of-a-Kind Life by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Mind Body Spirit
It's all too easy to get caught up in the monotonous nature of our day to day - moving from one rote task to the next, only to rinse and repeat the next day. Weirdness, however, is an easily accessible antidote to these feelings. In How to Be Weird, Eric G. Wilson offers 99 fun and philosophically rich ...Show more
Keep it Fake by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Biography
Shoot straight from the hip. Tell it like it is. Keep it real. We love these commands, especially in America, because they invoke what we love to believe: that there is an authentic self to which we can be true. But while we mock Tricky Dick and Slick Willie, we are inventing identities on Facebook, pay ...Show more
Keep it Fake by Eric G. Wilson
Category: Health and Wellbeing
In Keep It Fake: Inventing an Authentic Life, Eric G. Wilson investigates this phenomenon. He draws on neuroscience, psychology, sociology, philosophy, art, film, literature, and his own life to explore the possibility that there's no such thing as unwavering reality. Whether our left brains are shaping ...Show more
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