Philosophy of Boredom - Lars Svendsen

Philosophy of Boredom - Lars Svendsen

It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is.A Philosophy of Boredominvestigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it originated, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem to overcome it by any act of will. Lars Svendsen brings together observations from philosophy, literature, psychology, theology, and popular culture, examining boredom's pre-Romantic manifestations in medieval torpor, philosophical musings on boredom from Pascal to Nietzsche, and modern explorations into alienation and transgression by twentieth-century artists from Beckett to Warhol. A witty and entertaining account of our dullest moments and most maddening days,A Philosophy of Boredomwill appeal to anyone curious to know what lies beneath the overwhelming inertia of inactivity. źródło opisu: http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Philosophy_O...(?) źródło okładki: Reaktion Books 2005

data wydania 15 kwietnia 2005
język angielski
liczba stron 178
ISBN 9781861892171
słowa kluczowe Philosophy, boredom
kategoria filozofia i etyka
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