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The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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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.

This audiobook is expertly read by Peter Noble, with audio engineering by Logan Nyman. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

©2015 Byung-Chul Han (P)2025 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC Mental Health Movements Philosophy Psychology Sociology

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Original and Insightful

A small but great book. One of Han’s early works which merits repeated listening as its arguments are compelling, and the writing so beautifully crystallised.

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