Boredom : a lively history / Peter Toohey.
In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of...
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Yale University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Putting boredom in its place
- Chronic boredom and the company it keeps
- Humans, animals and incarceration
- The disease that wasteth at noonday
- Does boredom have a history?
- The long march back to boredom.