Experience without qualities: boredom and modernity
"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.
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- Full title :Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity / Elizabeth S. Goodstein.
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.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication:Stanford, Calif
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 461 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0804749582, 9780804749589, 0804758603, 9780804758604
- oclc:ocm55131413
- LC Classification:BF575.B67
- Dewey Decimal:128/.4
Table of 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.
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