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How to maintain hope in the face of despair
Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book - a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn't come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced 'just another push, comrades!' optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom.
Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In Burnout, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.
Achieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like Burnout, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle.
Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. Activists will find strange comfort in knowing that burnout is a collective affliction that has loomed large over our social movements for centuries ... While its effects can be profoundly personal, it can unite us too.
Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere.
Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book - a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn't come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced 'just another push, comrades!' optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom.
Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In Burnout, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.
Achieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like Burnout, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle.
Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. Activists will find strange comfort in knowing that burnout is a collective affliction that has loomed large over our social movements for centuries ... While its effects can be profoundly personal, it can unite us too.
Hannah Proctor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, interested in histories and theories of radical psychiatry. She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in Jacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry and elsewhere.