Why We Drive

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Crawford is the author of The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work Is Bad For Us and Fixing Things Feels Good and The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction , which have been translated around the world. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times , Sunday Times , Guardian , Independent , Wall Street Journal as well as numerous magazines and journals. Matthew is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, lectures internationally and runs a motorcyle repair shop. Klappentext A celebration of the rebellious human spirit against corporate technocracy. Drawing on reportage, science, philosophy and memomir, Matthew Crawford exposes the colonisation of our lives by invisible bureaucracy and how driving cars can help us recapture the values of rivalry, play, solidarity, dissent, democracy and joy. Zusammenfassung Speed, risk, freedom... Driving is one of the last remaining activities available day-to-day in which we get the chance to take control of our destiny, feel that intense and primal connection between movement and sheer joy, and experience a whiff of actual danger - the kind of faith in the unknown that makes us feel alive.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Crawford
• Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781847925114
• ISBN: 978-1-84792-511-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Society & culture: general, TRANSPORTATION / Automotive / History, Social forecasting, future studies, Technology: general issues, Popular philosophy, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Political control and freedoms, Road and motor vehicles: general interest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Roadcraft and driving