In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us about Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

by Nate Anderson

Book Overview

Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content."

Written long before the advent of smartphones, Nietzsche's aphoristic philosophy advocated a fierce mastery of attention, a strict information diet, and a powerful connection to the natural world. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324004797
• ISBN13: 9781324004790
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"