Wörterbuch der Unruhe

In his great success 'The Restlessness of the World', Ralf Konersmann explored the question of how Western culture has learned to love restlessness. In his new 'Dictionary of Restlessness', he now extends his investigations on the basis of unused sources and new focal points and undertakes essayistic forays into the places where restlessness takes shape and presents itself to us as the most normal thing in the world: from "work" to "coolness" and "unease" to "absent-mindedness". They are sparkling, brilliantly formulated conceptual reports on the question of which lines of argumentation and persuasion strategies the restlessness uses to win us over so much. The 'dictionary' - so to speak - supplements the view of the restlessness of the world with a view of the world of restlessness. "There is nothing more soothing than a dictionary." Roland Barthes.