The familiar concept of fatigue, which has entered the public consciousness and become a more visible part of our everyday lives in the 20th and 21st centuries, has undergone significant transformations over the centuries. Georges Vigarello's book explores how Western civilization learned to recognize fatigue, combat it, and distinguish its spiritual from physical aspects. The author draws on the history of the body and medical practices, the history of labor, war, sport, and intimacy. The pious exhaustion of medieval pilgrims, the fatigue of knights after tournaments, the burnout of modern office workers, the exhaustion of medical workers in COVID hospitals… This book is a tour through all the types and historical stages of fatigue. Georges Vigarello is a French historian and sociologist, a researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and the author of 'The Art of Attractiveness,' published by NLO.