Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/17O8t5 The Burnout Society By: Byung-Chul Han Publisher: Stanford University Press Print ISBN: 9780804795098, 0804795096 eText ISBN: 9780804797504, 0804797501 Edition: 1st Copyright year: 2015 Format: EPUB Available from $ 9.99 USD SKU 9780804797504 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.
