Exhaustion
A History
(Sprache: Englisch)
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,...
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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. Medical, cultural, literary, and biographical sources have cast exhaustion as a biochemical imbalance, a somatic ailment, a viral disease, and a spiritual failing. It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption
Autoren-Porträt von Anna Katharina Schaffner
Anna Katharina Schaffner is reader in comparative literature at the University of Kent. She has previously published on the histories of sexuality and psychoanalysis, modernist literature, and the avant-garde. Her most recent book is Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930. Her first novel, The Truth about Julia, will be published in spring 2016.
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- Autor: Anna Katharina Schaffner
- 2016, 288 Seiten, Masse: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- ISBN-10: 0231172303
- ISBN-13: 9780231172301
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2016
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Englisch
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