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02744aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 1EB7041E101B11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 190419t20192018nyu b 001 0deng d 020 $a 1468316958 020 $a 9781468316957 035 $a (OCoLC)1097882178 040 $a CUS $b eng $e rda $c CUS $d OCLCF $d CSG $d SILO 050 4 $a BF697 $b .S76 2018 100 1 $a Storr, Will, $e author. 245 10 $a Selfie : $b how we became so self-obsessed and what it's doing to us / $c Will Storr. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Abrams Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 403 pages ; $c 21 cm 546 $a Text in English. 520 $a "We are living in an age of heighted individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Out culture tells us that to succeed is to be slim, rich, happy, extroverted, popular--flawless. We have become self-obsessed. And our expectation of perfection comes at a cost. Millions are suffering under the torture of this impossible fantasy. The pressure to conform to this ideal has changed who we are. It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, award-winning journalist Will Storr takes us on a journey across continents and centuries to explore the origins of this notion of the perfect self that torments so many of us: Where does this ideal come from? Why is it so powerful? Is there any way to break its spell? Full of thrilling and unexpected connections among history, psychology, economics, neuroscience, and more, Selfie is an unforgettable book that makes sense of who we have become. Ranging from Ancient Greece, through the Christian Middle Ages, to the self-esteem evangelists of 1980s California, the rise of narcissism and the "selfie" generation, and right up to the era of hyper-individualism in which we live now, Selfie tells the epic tale of the person we all know so intimately--because it's us."--Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-391) and index. 505 0 $a The dying self -- The tribal self -- The perfectible self -- The bad self -- The good self -- The special self -- The digital self -- How to stay alive in the age of perfectionism. 650 0 $a Self. 650 0 $a Self $x History. 650 0 $a Self-perception. 650 7 $a Anthropology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810196 650 7 $a Self. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111441 650 7 $a Self-perception. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111797 650 7 $a Self $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111449 650 7 $a Sociology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123875 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20191126030718.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1EB7041E101B11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search