Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity / Elizabeth S. Goodstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodstein, Elizabeth S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boredom--Social aspects.

Boredom.

Boredom--France--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 461 pages)

Other Title:

Experience Without Qualities

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and thinking about human existence that are recognizably modern. By tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, "Experience Without Qualities" makes a contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity." -- Jacket.

Contents:

The rhetoric of boredom

Ennui in western literature : boredom as existential malaise

The normalization of anomie : boredom as sociological symptom

Boredom and the modernization of subjectivity

Georg Simmel's phenomenology of modern skepticism

Martin Heidegger's existential grammar of boredom

Being without qualities : Robert Musil and the self-overcoming of skepticism

Boredom and the rhetoric of reflection on modernity.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.