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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 essent…
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 essent…
This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom - what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers - spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific inv…
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 essent…
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
For Milo, everything's a bore. What a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from …
"On connaît le syndrome du burn-out, moins celui du bore-out : il touche pourtant davantage de personnes (30 % environ des travailleurs contre 10% pour le burn-out) et fait autant, sinon plus, de ravages. Au contraire du burn-out, sorte de boulimie de travail qui provoquerait un…
Essays on boredom and modernity
by Salzani, Carlo, Dalle Pezze, Barbara
fromCritical studies (Amsterdam)
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Type: Book
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 huma…
