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Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity / Elizabeth S. Goodstein.

Goodstein, Elizabeth S.
2004
BF575.B67 G66 2004 (Mapit)
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Title
Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity / Elizabeth S. Goodstein.
Author
Goodstein, Elizabeth S.
ISBN
0804749582 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804749589 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.
Language
English
Description
x, 461 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
BF575.B67 G66 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
128/.4
Summary
"Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and thinking about human existence that are recognizably modern. By tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, "Experience Without Qualities" makes a contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : the rhetoric of boredom
1. Ennui in Western literature : boredom as existential malaise
2. The normalization of anomie : boredom as sociological symptom
3. Boredom and the modernization of subjectivity
4. Georg Simmel's phenomenology of modern skepticism
5. Martin Heidegger's existential grammar of boredom
6. Being without qualities : Robert Musil and the self-overcoming of skepticism
Conclusion : boredom and the rhetoric of reflection on modernity.

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