Anna Katharina Schaffner is professor of cultural history at the University of Kent. She is the author of Exhaustion: A History and the novel The Truth about Julia.
Informative, comprehensive, and entertaining. . . . A necessary book for our Zeitgeist. -Scott Haas, author of Why Be Happy? The Japanese Way of Acceptance With remarkable range, this fascinating book brings alive new worlds of self-relations. It is inspiring both academically and personally. -Greta Wagner, Technical University of Darmstadt