The Ethics of Fatigue: Philosophical Fragments on Contemporary Exhaustion

By Antônio Carlos

This book does not treat fatigue as failure or as a symptom to be overcome. It listens to it as a language. Across forty reflective fragments, it explores exhaustion as an ethical, silent, and often solitary experience - not merely physical, but symbolic, subjective, existential.

Against the logic of productivity, self-optimization, and permanent availability, this work reclaims the right not to respond, not to perform, simply to rest. Here, pause is not a strategy - it is presence. Silence is not absence - it is a form of resistance.

Each fragment is an interval. And it is within these intervals that thought returns, the body breathes, and time, for a moment, slows down. The Ethics of Fatigue offers no formulas, no answers - only the quiet courage of stopping. And in that gesture, it restores the dignity of continuing to exist without needing to prove anything.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMRPD2B4
• ISBN13: 9798298561129
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"