Exhaustion: a history
Schaffner, Anna Katharina
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.
Year:
2017
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Language:
english
ISBN 10:
0231538855
ISBN 13:
9780231538855
File:
PDF, 1.91 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2017