Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth
— Gandhi
Will Storr
Subtitled "How we became so self-obsessed and what it's doing to us". This is my favourite sort of book, sweeping, well informed, compelling and empowering. The author takes us on a couple of stops to explain the conception of self in the West, from the ideas of Ancient Greece, to...