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. 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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