The End of Burnout
Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives
$42.40
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2022
Summary
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.
Burnout has become our go-to term for talking about the pressure and dissatisfaction we experience at work. But because we don’t really understand what burnout means, the discourse does little to help workers who are suffering from exhaustion and des…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520344075 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520344073 |
| Author: | Jonathan Malesic |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
“A moving examination of a flawed approach to work that suggests a society-wide means of dismantling the problem.”
“A moving examination of a flawed approach to work that suggests a society-wide means of dismantling the problem.” * ForeWord Reviews *
“In mixing Thoreau with papal encyclicals, feminist thinkers with aristocratic philosophers, [Malesic] makes a persuasive case for the reorientation of our ideals surrounding work, and the proposition, catholic in every sense of the term, that acknowledgement of human dignity must precede any ability to demonstrate it.”
* The Bulwark *“His acutely felt investigation of work burnout as an ‘ailment of the soul’ makes his the more thought-provoking and substantial of these two books.”
* TLS *“Jonathan Malesic’s intelligent and careful study,The End of Burnout, brings clarity to a muddled discussion.” * The Baffler *
Jonathan Malesic
Jonathan Malesic is a Dallas-based writer and a former academic, sushi chef, and parking lot attendant who holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, America, Commonweal, and elsewhere.
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