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Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control
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Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on the open road.Today we are more often in the back seat of an Uber.As we hurtle toward a ‘self-driving’ future, are we destined to become passengers in our own lives too?In Why We Drive, the philosopher and mechanic Matthew Crawford celebrates the risk, skill and freedom of driving. He reveals what we are losing to technology and government control in the modern world, and speaks up for play, dissent and occasionally being scared witless.’Fascinating… A pleasure to read’ Sunday Times’Persuasive and thought-provoking… A vivid and heartfelt manifesto’ Observer
Additional information
| Weight | 0.288 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.5 × 13 × 20 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 368 |
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| Year Published | 2021-5-27 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1784707953 |
| About The Author | 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. |
| Review Quote | One of the most original and mind-opening studies of practical philosophy to have appeared for many years |
| Other text | Persuasive and thought-provoking … a vivid and heartfelt manifesto against …the loss of individual agency and the human pleasure of acquired skill and calculated risk … Not since Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance has someone better articulated the soul-enhancing possibilities of tinkering with tools, making useful stuff work well … a powerful (and enjoyable) corrective against that wisdom that suggests the unchecked march of all-seeing tech monopolies … is essential to human progress |
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