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Will Rees
Hypochondria
Hypochondria
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Hypochondria is a genre-bending meditation on hypochondria that combines contemporary cultural critique, literary history, and the author's own experience of chronic health anxiety to explore why we believe we are sick. It references a wide range of sources, from Franz Kafka to Lauren Berlant, and offers wry and perceptive criticism of our desire for certainty.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 24 April 2025
Publisher: Coach House Books
Everyone must read this book.
– Lucia Osborne-Crowley
Extraordinary and utterly compelling.
– Adam Phillips
An almost impossible balancing act.
– Merve Emre
“Part philosophical treatise, part memoir, part history, Rees's genre-bending meditation on hypochondria references everyone from Freud to Kafka to Seinfeld in a provocative search to find out why, exactly, we believe we're sick.”
– The New York Times
A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines incisive contemporary cultural critique, colorful literary history, and the author's own experience of chronic health anxiety to ask what we might learn from the hypochondriac's discomforting experience of their body.
Hypochondria is expansive in its range of references, from the writings of Franz Kafka to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant.
Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne, or his own past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes – and the costs – of our desire for certainty.
With wit and erudition, Hypochondria demonstrates both the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.
Weight: 282g
Dimension: 203 x 129 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781552454848
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