| #582415 in Books | Reaktion Books | 2005-04-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.70 x4.75l,.40 | File Name: 1861892179 | 192 pages |
||0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| I like.|By Anonymous|Fascinating stuff.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| I enjoyed both books very much|By Andrea Zalesakova|Daniel Klein recommends this book in his book - Travels with Epicurus. I enjoyed both books very much. Boredom is life and life is boredom. We constantly pretend that we overcame it wi||
"An amusing, learned, and articulate philosophical study of one of humanity's prime afflictions. . . Svendsen has a way with words, and, unlike many writers of philosophy books, is also blessed with a sly wit and a thorough knowledge of popular culture.
It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it originated, how and why it afflicts us, and why we cannot seem... [PDF.pd87] A Philosophy of Boredom Rating: 4.75 (434 Votes)
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