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Exhaustion a history /

Schaffner, Anna Katharina,

Exhaustion a history /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exhaustion Anna Katharina Schaffner
Reminder of title:	a history /
Author:	Schaffner, Anna Katharina,
Description:	1 online resource
Subject:	FatigueCongresses.
Online resource:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/COLB0002318.html
ISBN:	9780231538855$q(electronic bk.)

Exhaustion a history /
Schaffner, Anna Katharina,

Exhaustion a history /[electronic resource] :Anna Katharina Schaffner - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- Humors -- Sin -- Saturn -- Sexuality -- Nerves -- Capitalism -- Rest -- The death drive -- Depression -- Mystery viruses -- Burnout -- Epilogue: the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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

In English

ISBN: 9780231538855$q(electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

467647
Fatigue
--Congresses.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

298895
Electronic books

LC Class. No.: BF482 / .S33 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 152.1/886

Exhaustion a history /
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520 $a 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
520 $a It has been linked to loss, the alignment of the planets, a perverse desire for death, and social and economic disruption. Pathologized, demonized, sexualized, and even weaponized, exhaustion unites the mind with the body and society in such a way that we attach larger questions of agency, willpower, and well-being to its symptoms. Mapping these political, ideological, and creative currents across centuries of human development, Exhaustion finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves
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