The burnout society /Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Erik Butler.

By:

Han, Byung-Chul [Author]

Contributor(s):

Butler, Erik, 1971- []

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Stanford, California : Stanford Briefs, an imprint of Stanford University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (60 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804797504

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

BF482 .B876 2015

Online resources:

Click to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password

Available additional physical forms:

Contents:

Beyond disciplinary society -- Profound boredom -- Vita activa -- The pedagogy of seeing -- The Bartleby case -- The society of tiredness -- Burnout society.

Subject: 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

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	BF482 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn912498959

Translation of: Müdigkeitsgesellschaft.

Includes bibliographical references.

Neuronal power -- Beyond disciplinary society -- Profound boredom -- Vita activa -- The pedagogy of seeing -- The Bartleby case -- The society of tiredness -- Burnout society.

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

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.