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A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen

A Philosophy of Boredom Lars Svendsen ebook
ISBN: 1861892179, 9781861892171
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: pdf
Page: 178

Lars Svendsen turns out not to be a doctrinaire with a strong original theory about the meaning of evil, but rather a generalist who has also written books called A Philosophy of Boredom and A Philosophy of Fear. It is indeed strange how many reviewers are reading this book as a kind of “philosophy of boredom” and putting aside the style and plot, etc. In the latest edition of The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall asks Lee Rourke about his novel, The Canal, his influences, and a philosophical way of thinking about boredom [Listen]. Neither am I going to give a philosophical angle to the whole issue of Boredom and how it stems from man's desire for more and the likes. Boredom and frustration — the dissatisfaction of any one of the 12 principal “passions” — become the cardinal sins of this society and the root of all evil. In Uncle Vanya, Chekhov's classic meditation on ennui, the characters lead lives of quiet — and not so quiet — desperation. Ever since the details of the Jimmy Savile case started to come to light, I have, like some philosophical gumshoe, been pursuing an investigation into the possible intellectual origin of his mentality. The playwright Anton Chekhov certainly knew that. Carlin Romano was not at all bored by Lars Svendsen's A Philosophy of Boredom: Looking at boredom, but making it interesting. In other words, I have been looking into what has loosely been . Boredom is a very dangerous thing.