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Boredom : a lively history /

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Toohey, Peter, 1951- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, ©2011.
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Table des matières:
  • Putting boredom in its place
  • Chronic boredom and the company it keeps
  • Humans, animals and incarceration
  • The disease that wasteth at noonday
  • Does boredom have a history?
  • The long march back to boredom.