

Selfie
How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing To Us
Author: Will Storr
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Unabridged: 12 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 10/23/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Social Science, Anthropology
Synopsis
It was not always like this. To explain how we got here, award-winning journalist Will Storr leads us on a "terrific tour through the history of self-obsession" (NPR, On Point) that explores 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 the "selfie" generation, and 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.