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Beth Blum

The Self-Help Compulsion

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  • Grishas quoted3 years ago
    To begin, they cite self-help’s contribution to our culture of anxiety and overwork, which leads to what McGee calls the “belabored self” of modernity
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    These books are not overtly marketed as self-help, but on the sly that is what they are: they are manuals on how to live your life, and how not
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    In recent self-help works, modernism has become an unlikely mascot for the embrace of resilience in the place of perfectionism, realism rather than “cruel optimism.”
  • Grishas quoted3 years ago
    that modernism is now experiencing a revival as a source of useful countercounsel in our advice-saturated culture
  • Grishas quoted3 years ago
    It is because authors such as Proust, Kafka, Joyce, and Woolf refused to supply readers with the easy solutions the self-industry thought that they wanted (whether readers really wanted such facile answers is a question I address in later chapters)
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    rich or winning friends but about how and why people read
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    Self-help’s most valuable secrets are not about getting
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    reading nonsequentially for personal use offers a window onto the way that reading and writing once “belonged to a continuous effort to make sense of things
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