Exhaustion : : A History / / Anna K. Schaffner.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction
- 1. Humors
- 2. Sin
- 3. Saturn
- 4. Sexuality
- 5. Nerves
- 6. Capitalism
- 7. Rest
- 8. The Death Drive
- 9. Depression
- 11. Burnout
- Epilogue: The Future
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX