Experience without qualities : boredom and modernity
By: Goodstein, Elizabeth S.
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BookPublisher: California : Stanford University Press, 2005Description: x, 461 p. ; ill., 23 cm.ISBN: 9780804758604.Subject(s): Existential malaise | Sociological symptom | French and German literary | Human condition | Literary Criticism | European modernityDDC 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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