Abstract
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2015.
Most of us think of distraction as a mere annoyance— a mild humming in the background while you work, a fly landing on your book while you read. We do not usually think of it carrying the weight of a serious moral problem. In his new book, The World Beyond Your Head, Matthew Crawford argues that our inability to pay attention does carry such moral weight, and he argues this precisely because it dissolves our individuality and our freedom.
Recommended Citation
Dijkema, B. (2016). Book Review: The Ethics of Attention in an Age of Distraction: Why You Need to Get Out of Your Own Head. International Christian Community of Teacher Educators Journal, 11(1).