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Exhaustion: a history

By SCHAFFNER , Anna Katharina

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780231172301, 9780231538855, 0231538855
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2002184 bytes)
Pages
\304
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Fatigue;Social history

Description

Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past, imagining life to have once been simpler and slower, but extreme mental and physical stress is not a modern syndrome. Beginning in classical antiquity, this book demonstrates how exhaustion has always been with us and helps us evaluate more critically the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon.

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