Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly
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"Why is western humanity, richer and safer than ever before, also fatter, sadder and more fearful? Blubberland is a witty and engaging critique of the way we live now. It covers architecture and city-making but looks also at why we desire, what we mean by beauty, our friend-foe relationship with nature and why truth is a life and death thing, even when we think we don't believe in it." -- Publisher.Tags
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This is a hard book to characterize. It has several bad elements. It often reads like a architecture term paper. It is a little more than faintly anti-democratic. It annoyingly (to me) seems to misunderstand the pragmatic possibilities of post-modernism or "relativism". But there are some thought provoking lines about suburban sprawl and (more doubtfully) about the possibilities of dense city life. What this book is not is a "how to" on living simply.
No clear thesis, one long rant filled with evo-psych, pseudo science, gender essentialism, and fat hatred.
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Elizabeth Farrelly is an author who wrote Caro Was Here which won an ABIA Award 2015 in the category of Best Designed Children¿s Fiction book. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction, Art & Design, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
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- 306 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce
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- BF575 .H27 .F37 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Psychology Psychology Affection. Feeling. Emotion
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