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The Burnout Society
A short book arguing that the society of prohibition has become a society of achievement, whose subject exhausts itself voluntarily.
Han, Byung-Chul. The Burnout Society. Translated by Erik Butler. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. (German original, Müdigkeitsgesellschaft, Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2010.)
Book · Stanford University Press · 2015
Provenance
is the origin of
- The achievement subject exploits itselfClaim
The book's central thesis.
related to
- Byung-Chul HanPerson
Han is the book's author.