Nikulin Critique of Bored Reason

On the Confinement of the Modern Condition
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-54815-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept’s genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Considering such thinkers as Descartes, Pascal, Kant, Kierkegaard, Kracauer, Heidegger, and Benjamin, Critique of Bored Reason places boredom on center stage in the philosophical critique of modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nikulin, Dmitri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
1. A Conceptual History of Boredom
2. Boredom and the Flâneur
3. Critique of Bored Reason
4. Being and Boredom
5. The Nonboring Well-Being
6. Scandal
In Place of a Conclusion: On Method
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dmitri Nikulin is professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of a number of books including Dialectic and Dialogue (2010), Comedy, Seriously (2014), The Concept of History (2017), and Neoplatonism in Late Antiquity (2019).