Boredom: a Political Issue

 

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Autor: García Quesada, George I.
Formato: capítulo de libro
Fecha de Publicación:2020
Descripción:This chapter examines the concept of boredom in several philosophers in the line from German Idealism to Western and contemporary Marxism, relating the changes in this concept to successive social transformations. We thus propose a periodization for the conceptualization of boredom, which allows us to highlight the historicity of the concepts of boredom in philosophy and their inherent political (utopian) content. In this overview, we find two fundamental concepts of boredom: emptiness-boredom and repetition-boredom. These concepts are related to different treatments of boredom from these authors, oscillating between its praise as a long time for subjective introspection and its denunciation as a symptom of alienated time. Finally, we draw some considerations about time and boredom in contemporary societies.
País:Kérwá
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/84935
Acceso en línea:https://brill.com/view/book/9789004427495/BP000004.xml
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/84935
Palabra clave:Boredom
Marxism
Political philosophy
Utopía
Philosophy of culture
Modernity