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Essays on boredom and modernity /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dalle Pezze, Barbara, 1970-, Salzani, Carlo, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The delicate monster : modernity and boredom / 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.