Critique of Bored Reason - On the Confinement of the Modern Condition

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.

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 den Autor / die Autorin

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).

Zusammenfassung

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.

Zusatztext

Ambitious, well-written, and marked by welcome touches of humor, Critique of Bored Reason is distinguished by extraordinary erudition, impressive expository and interpretative powers, and a genuinely constructive impulse that is grounded in a very deep knowledge of the tradition of philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dmitri Nikulin, Dmitri (Associate Professor Nikulin, Nikulin Dmitri
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780231189071
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18907-1
• Seiten: 328
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy