{"id":7889,"date":"2017-09-20T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7889"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T09:50:23","slug":"anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/20\/anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Katharina Schaffner in The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Department of Comparative Literature<\/a>, featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\">The Irish Times<\/a> <\/em>this week discussing her\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6136\">book\u00a0Exhaustion: A History<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(Columbia University Press, 2016).<\/p>\n<p><em>The Irish Times <\/em>is a broadsheet with a circulation of approximately 62,000 per day.<\/p>\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018Burnt Out? Relax, We\u2019ve Been Exhausted for Centuries\u2019 by Patrick Freyne, appeared in the edition dated Saturday 16 September 2017, as part of a series of features on the subject of burnout.<\/p>\n<p>On the background of her book, Anna explains \u2018I noticed there were loads and loads of media reports on burnout and how it has become a really dangerous epidemic threatening the workforce,\u2019 she says in the article. \u2018And in these articles people make the argument that we have never been as exhausted as we are nowadays.\u2019\u00a0She challenges this widely-held view, arguing that anxieties about exhaustion can be found throughout history, all the way back to ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/health-family\/burnt-out-relax-we-ve-been-exhausted-for-centuries-1.3213153\">www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/health-family\/burnt-out-relax-we-ve-been-exhausted-for-centuries-1.3213153<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities in the\u00a0Department of Comparative Literature, featured in The Irish Times this week discussing her\u00a0book\u00a0Exhaustion: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/09\/20\/anna-katharina-schaffner-in-the-irish-times\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7889\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}