Distraction by Damon YoungISBN: 9781317488217
Publication Date: 2014-12-05
In his lucid, timely book, Damon Young shows that distraction is more than too many stimuli, or too little attention. Exploring the lives of such luminaries as Henri Matisse, Karl Marx, Seneca and Henry James, Young exposes distraction in work, technology, art, politics and intimacy. With warmth and wit, he reveals what is most valuable, and what is best avoided, in the pursuit of a life of one's own.