Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural history

Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural historyMost of the core concepts of the Western philosophical tradition originate in antiquity. Yet boredom is strikingly absent from classical thought. In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Nikulin contends that boredom is a specifically modern phenomenon. He provides a critical reconstruction of the concept of the modern subject as universal, rational, autonomous, and

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But Mom and Dad immediately say no—the Pinkertons always get real trees for the holidays

But as drinking descends into debauchery

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He has lived and he has loved

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Barbara Murck is a geologist and senior lecturer in environmental science at the University of Toronto Mississauga

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who knows a thing or two

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Sculpting a Life is the first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff