这是一本关于我们认为正常的事情的书。它详细描述了常态的概念是如何在现代出现的，以及它在几个世纪里是如何变化的。
到了20世纪中叶，规范在人类努力的各个领域的扩展，在西方社会形成了一种治理规范秩序。常态被定义为符合传统人类行为的狭隘模式。然而，这种模式后来被一种反墨守成规主义所取代，在这种反墨守成规主义中，常态被定义为绝对的自我实现，无视对我们行为的旧限制。矛盾的是，自恋的个人主义和对从众的反抗已经成为强制性的。
《正常人》现在详细探讨了这一新的规范秩序今天在政治、健康、性和性领域的表现。在所有这些领域，我们自我表达规范中的毫不妥协的完美主义导致越来越根深蒂固、无处不在的愤怒、焦虑和不满。
Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity
This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries.
By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour generated a governing normative order in Western societies. Normality was defined as conformity with a narrow model of conventional human behaviour. However, this model has since been displaced by an anti-conformism, in which normality is defined as absolute self-fulfilment, defying older restrictions on our behaviour. Paradoxically, narcissistic individualism and rebellion against conformity have become compulsory.
Normal Now explores in detail how this new normative order plays out today in the arenas of politics, health, and sex and sexuality. In all these areas, the uncompromising perfectionism of our norms of self-expression leads to increasingly deep-seated and ubiquitous anger, anxiety and dissatisfaction.
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