A Philosophy of Boredom

by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen and  

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861892179
• ISBN13: 9781861892171
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 7.8"