Essays on boredom and modernity / edited by Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

EbscoHost (Servicio en línea)

Dalle Pezze, Barbara, 1970-

Salzani, Carlo, 1972-

Series:

Critical Studies 31.

Critical studies ; v. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boredom.

Boredom in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, expression of a metaphysical malady inherent to the fact of being human. New trends in the literature focus on the peculiar relationship between boredom and modernity and attempt to embrace the new social, cultural and political factors which provoked the epochal change of modernity and relate them to a change in the parameters of human experience and the crisis of subjectivity. The very changes that characterise modernity are the same that led to the “democratisation” of boredom: modernity and boredom are shown to be inextricably connected and inseparable. This volume aims at contributing to the growing body of literature on boredom with a number of essays which reflect on the connection of boredom and modernity and focus on particular texts, authors, or aspects of the phenomenon. The approach is multidisciplinary, in keeping with the pervasiveness of the phenomenon in our culture and societies, with essays reflecting on philosophy, literature, film, media and psychology.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-420-3212-X

OCLC:

711000188

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042032125 DOI