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Exhaustion

A History

By: Anna K. Schaffner

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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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The Art of Self-Improvement

Ten Timeless Truths

By: Anna Katharina Schaffner

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The Art of Self-Improvement

Ten Timeless Truths

By: Anna Katharina Schaffner

A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today Self-help today is a multi-billion-dollar global industry, one often seen as a by-product of neoliberalism and capitalism. Far from being a recent phenomenon, however, the practice of self-improvement has a long and rich history, extending all the way back to ancient China. For millennia, philosophers, sages, and theologians have reflected on the good life and devised strategies on how to achieve it. Focusing on ten core ideas of self-improvement that run through the world’s advice literature, Anna Katharina Schaffner reveals the ways they have evolved across cultures and historical eras, and why they continue to resonate with us today. Reminding us that there is much to learn from looking at time-honed models, Schaffner also examines the ways that self-improvement practices provide powerful barometers of the values, anxieties, and aspirations that preoccupy us at particular moments in time and expose basic assumptions about our purpose and nature.

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Yale University Press

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0300262396

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The Art of Self-Improvement

Ten Timeless Truths

By: Anna Katharina Schaffner

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Ten Timeless Truths

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Exhaustion

A History

By: Anna K. Schaffner

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A History

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Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

By: A. Schaffner

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Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

By: A. Schaffner

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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Exhaustion

Exhaustion

The Art of Self-Improvement

The Art of Self-Improvement

The Art of Self-Improvement

The Art of Self-Improvement

Exhaustion

Exhaustion

Modernism and Perversion

Modernism and Perversion

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