Ebook: Exhaustion: a history
Author: Schaffner Anna Katharina
- Tags: Fatigue, Social history
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Columbia University Press
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
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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