Essays on boredom and modernity / / edited by Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani.
The past thirty years saw a growing academic interest in the phenomenon of boredom. If initially the analyses were mostly a-historical, now the historicity of boredom is widely recognised, though often it is taken as evidence of its permanence as a constant “quality” of the human condition, expressi...
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| Superior document: | Critical studies ; v. 31 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2009. |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (225 pages). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary material / Editors Essays on Boredom and Modernity
- INTRODUCTION / Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani
- From Idleness to Boredom: On the Historical Development of Modern Boredom / Isis I. Leslie
- Kierkegaard’s Demonic Boredom / William McDonald
- Metaphysics and the Mood of Deep Boredom: Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Mood / Matthew Boss
- Beckett’s Boredom / James Phillips
- The Atrophy of Experience: Walter Benjamin and Boredom / Carlo Salzani
- The Quick and the Flat: Walter Benjamin, Werner Herzog / Rachel June Torbett
- The Digital Void: e-NNUI and experience / Marco van Leeuwen
- The Devil Inside: Boredom Proneness and Impulsive Behaviour / Joseph Boden
- CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Essays on Boredom and Modernity.