Social Psychology and Society
2024. Vol. 15, no. 1, 209–214
doi:10.17759/sps.2024150112
ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052 (online)
Tired Socially – Now and Forever? Review of the Book by Byung-Chol Khan "The Society of Fatigue. Negative Experience in the Era of Excessive Positivity". Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 161 p.
Abstract
The reviewed book presents a philosophical view on a number of social and socio-psychological problems of the modern era, a significant part of which is analyzed through the prism of subjective human experiences, including destructive ones. Depression, emotional burnout, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which are widespread today, are, according to the author's position, the natural consequences of an increasing social trend – the imperative of individual achievements characteristic of a society that expects each of its members to comply with the requirements of multitasking and constant acceleration. Such a society naturally replaces open violence against a person with the practice of self–exploitation, and its value guideline is "positivity" (orientation to all positive things), leading to the denial of real social diversity, and eventually to social atomization. The author sees a constructive way out for a person of the "fatigue society" in the need for non-action and conscious contemplation, which immanently imply openness to the world.
General Information
Keywords: achievement society; multitasking; burnout; depression; atomization of social space; fatigue; creative contemplation
Journal rubric: Critique and Bibliography
Article type: review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2024150112
Received: 21.02.2024
For citation: Belinskaya E.P. Tired Socially – Now and Forever? Review of the Book by Byung-Chol Khan "The Society of Fatigue. Negative Experience in the Era of Excessive Positivity". Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 161 p.. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2024. Vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 209–214. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2024150112. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)
References
- Han Byung-Chol. Obshchestvo ustalosti. Negativnyi opyt v epokhu chrezmernogo pozitiva [Fatigue Society. Negative experience in the era of excessive positivity]. Pavlov A.V. (eds.). Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 161 p.
- Han Byung-Chol. Aromat vremeni. Filosofskoe esse ob iskusstve sozertsaniya [The aroma of time. Philosophical essay on the art of contemplation]. Pavlov A.V. (eds.). Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 192 p.
- Han Byung-Chol. Agoniya erosa. Lyubov' i zhelanie v nartsissicheskom obshchestve [The agony of eros. Love and desire in a narcissistic society]. Pavlov A.V. (eds.). Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 162 p.
- Han Byung-Chol. Krizis povestvovaniya. Kak neoliberalizm prevratil narrativy v storitelling [Narrative crisis. How neoliberalism turned narratives into storytelling]. Pavlov A.V. (eds.). Moscow: AST Publishing House, 2023. 160 p.
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