×


 x 

Shopping cart
27%OFFAnna Katharina Schaffner - Exhaustion: A History - 9780231172301 - V9780231172301
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Exhaustion: A History

€ 35.99
€ 26.43
You save € 9.56!
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Exhaustion: A History Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; JMH; JMP; MBPK; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231172301
SKU
V9780231172301
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Anna Katharina Schaffner
Anna Katharina Schaffner is reader in comparative literature and medical humanities at the University of Kent. She has 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 (2012).

Reviews for Exhaustion: A History
Exhaustion is fluently written and brilliantly argued, and it will provoke thoughtful minds with the suggestion that exhaustion has a history.
Edward Shorter, author of How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown Exhaustion is an impressive, accomplished, and original book, one that promises to command a wide cross-disciplinary readership. A formidable amount of reading ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Exhaustion: A History


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!