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The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Charles Derber

Current price: $17.95
The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Charles Derber

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Enough about me," goes the old saying, "what about you? What do you think about me?" Hence the pursuit of attention is alive and well. Even the Oxford English Dictionary reveals a modern coinage to reflect the chase in our technological age: "ego-surfing"-searching the Internet foroccurrences of your own name. What is the cause of this obsessive need for others' recognition? This useful and popular volume, now in a second edition that features major new introductory and concluding essays, entertainingly ponders this question. Derber argues that there is a general lack ofsocial support in today's America, one which causes people to vie hungrily for attention, and he shows how individuals will often employ numerous techniques to turn the course of a conversation towards themselves. Illustrating this "conversational narcissism" with sample dialogues that will seemdisturbingly familiar to all readers, this book analyzes the pursuit of attention in conversation-as well as in politics and celebrity culture-and demonstrates the ultimate importance of gender, class, and racial differences in competing for attention. Derber shows how changes in the economy andculture-such as the advent of the Internet-have intensified the rampant individualism and egotism of today. And finally, in a new afterword, he focuses on solutions: how to restructure the economy and culture to humanize ourselves and increase the capacity for community, empathy, andattention-giving. | The Pursuit of Attention by Charles Derber, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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