Exhaustion
Subtitle: a history
By: Anna Katharina Schaffner
Edition: Paperback edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780231172318
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fatigue; Social history
Description: "This book demonstrates that exhaustion has always been with us, beginning in classical antiquity, and helps us critically evaluate the narratives we tell ourselves about the phenomenon. 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. Exhausiton: A History finds in our struggle to overcome weariness a more significant effort to master ourselves."--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Humors; title: Sin; title: Saturn; title: Sexuality; title: Nerves; title: Capitalism; title: Rest; title: The death drive; title: Depression; title: Mystery viruses; title: Burnout; title: Epilogue: the future; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.