TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han,Byung-Chul
AU  - Butler,Erik
TI  - The burnout society /Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Erik Butler
SN  - 9780804797504
AV  - BF482 .B876 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press
KW  - Mental fatigue
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Burn out (Psychology)
KW  - Depression, Mental
KW  - Mental Fatigue
KW  - Burnout, Professional
KW  - Depression
KW  - Stress, Psychological
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Translation of: Müdigkeitsgesellschaft; 1; Neuronal power --; Beyond disciplinary society --; Profound boredom --; Vita activa --; The pedagogy of seeing --; The Bartleby case --; The society of tiredness --; Burnout society; 2; b
N2  - Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection
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