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Journal articles on the topic "Existential boredom"

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Bargdill, Richard W. "Toward a Theory of Habitual Boredom." Janus Head 13, no. 2 (2014): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh201413219.

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This article describes the experience of habitual boredom including: contrasting situational and habitual boredom, reviewing the humanistic-existential literature on habitual boredom as well as presenting a theory of habitual boredom. The theory suggests that habitual boredom develops from ambivalence (1) an emotional tear between one’s self and others. This ambivalence leads to a passive-avoidant stance (2) toward one’s life. This passivity includes a passive hope (3); the bored person believes something or someone else will change the bored person’s life, but not one’s own actions. Gradually
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Quaranta, Chiara. "A Cinema of Boredom: Heidegger, Cinematic Time and Spectatorship." Film-Philosophy 24, no. 1 (2020): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2020.0126.

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Boredom, in cinema as well as in our everyday experience, is usually associated with a generalised loss of meaning or interest. Accordingly, boredom is often perceived as that which ought to be avoided. In Martin Heidegger's philosophical inquiry, however, boredom is posited as one of the fundamental existential dispositions that provide access to the possibility of philosophising. My contention is that boredom can be a tool for understanding spectatorship in cinema and, in contrast to the ordinary perception of boredom as something to escape, it can be a stimulus for reflecting on the images
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Finkielsztein, Mariusz. "Boredom and Power: How Power Relations Influence Feeling Boredom." Zoon Politikon, no. 14 (October 17, 2023): 123–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/2543408xzop.23.004.18504.

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The paper advocates the claim that boredom is not only a psychological state or existential mood but a social emotion produced and reproduced in the process of interactions between people as individuals, people displaying specific social roles, or social groups. Moreover, as argued in the article, the feeling of boredom is particularly characteristic of power relations. Therefore, boredom is hypothesized to be a matter of interactional/social position – its experiencing is influenced by one’s social status. The power to produce boredom in others usually reflects a higher social position, and i
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Strelis Söderquist, Anna Louise. "Demonic Pantheism: Either/Or on Boredom as the Modern Crisis of Faith." Kierkegaard Studies Yearbook 29, no. 1 (2024): 3–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kierke-2024-0002.

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Abstract This article engages with A’s “Crop Rotation” in Either/Or—the “boredom” essay—as a source for serious thought on the modern crisis of faith. Exploring A’s portrayal of the modern subject as isolated and self-enclosed, a “bored” condition linked to its radical autonomy and self-directed existence, it suggests that A’s explanation for this condition still holds today: modern humans’ self-assertion (and hence self-isolation) emerges as a response to a profound loss of meaning. Through an existential reading of A’s essay, it highlights A’s notion of “demonic pantheism” as illuminating wh
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Bezerra, Medeiros Stanley Kreiter, and Melo Symone de. "When Existence Grows Heavy: Existential Boredom and the Flight from Ourselves." Journal of Boredom Studies, no. 3 (May 19, 2025): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15465702.

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This paper presents a theoretical investigation of existential boredom as a fundamental attunement through which key aspects of the human condition are disclosed&mdash;namely, the absence of ultimate meaning, ontological freedom, and finitude. Far from being a fleeting emotion or trivial discomfort, boredom is treated here as a mood with ontological significance, capable of revealing our evasive relationship with our own condition as existing beings. By drawing on philosophical reflections ranging from Seneca&rsquo;s notion of <em>taedium vitae</em> to modern and existential thinkers such as P
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Moynihan, Andrew B., Eric R. Igou, and Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg. "Pornography consumption as existential escape from boredom." Personality and Individual Differences 198 (November 2022): 111802. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111802.

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Farooqui, Quratulain, and Amana Raquib. "Technology, Boredom and Intellectual-Spiritual Lethargy: Exploring the Impact of Technology on the Mental Well-being of Over-Stimulated Millennials." 3RD WCII 18, s19 (2022): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/mjmhs.18.s19.19.

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Introduction: Generally, it is considered that boredom is a product of low arousal and can be addressed by the availability of stimulating activities and choices. This study helps see the connection between anxiety and boredom on the one hand and technological hyper-stimulation and boredom, on the other. We define existential boredom as the mood of anxiety about the uncertainty of human life and eventual death. This feeling is positive if it leads one to contemplation or deeper understanding. The hypothesis behind this paper is that in the absence of right resources in the current world, to fa
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van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., and Eric R. Igou. "On Boredom and Social Identity." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37, no. 12 (2011): 1679–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167211418530.

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People who feel bored experience that their current situation is meaningless and are motivated to reestablish a sense of meaningfulness. Building on the literature that conceptualizes social identification as source of meaningfulness, the authors tested the hypothesis that boredom increases the valuation of ingroups and devaluation of outgroups. Indeed, state boredom increased the liking of an ingroup name (Study 1), it increased hypothetical jail sentences given to an outgroup offender (Study 2 and Study 3), especially in comparison to an ingroup offender (Study 3), it increased positive eval
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On, Gadi. "Finding Something for Yourself: Exploring Boredom Through the Lens of Identity Development." Journal of Boredom Studies, no. 3 (April 8, 2025): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15177188.

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Boredom is a complex human experience understood through psychodynamic, arousal, cognitive, and existential perspectives. Despite significant contributions from these perspectives, this paper highlights two key challenges to understanding boredom: the depth of boredom &ndash; whether it is a minor or significant aspect of human experience &ndash; and the role of personal meaning in theories of boredom. I propose an initial framework for understanding boredom by integrating insights from different theoretical traditions, particularly in relation to identity development. Drawing on the work of E
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Boczkowska, Kornelia. "Boredom revisited, or how Andy Warhol predated slow cinema." Short Film Studies 10, no. 2 (2020): 157–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00008_1.

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Abstract The article analyses how Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger predates slow cinema by evoking situative and existential boredom. Rather than simply facilitating modernist and temporal ways of seeing, Leth explores the creative potential of Warhol's post-Romantic boredom, marked by both duration and meaninglessness, to counteract the anti-immersion effect and amplify receptiveness.
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Books on the topic "Existential boredom"

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Lisi, Leonardo F. Nihilism and Boredom in Hedda Gabler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on Hedda’s experience of boredom and its relation to the modern condition of nihilism. While Hedda’s character has traditionally been seen as mysterious and erratic in her motivations, she in fact consistently pursues a project of existential and aesthetic autonomy as a way to overcome the alienation of modern life. In Ibsen’s play, however, her project ultimately founders through the disclosure of an ontological condition that undermines all attempts at establishing human values and meanings, whether relative or absolute.
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Gjesdal, Kristin, ed. Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190467876.001.0001.

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Since its publication in 1890, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler has been a recurring point of fascination for readers, theater audiences, and artists alike. Newly married, yet utterly bored, the character of Hedda Gabler evokes reflection on beauty, love, passion, death, nihilism, identity, and a host of other topics of an existential and philosophical kind. It is no surprise that Ibsen’s work has gained the attention of philosophically minded readers from Nietzsche, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and Freud, to Adorno, Cavell, and beyond. Once staged at avant-garde theaters in Paris, London, and Berlin, Ibsen is now
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Book chapters on the topic "Existential boredom"

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Curletto, Mario Alessandro. "Regret for the Time of Heroes and Existential Toska in Vladimir Vysockij." In Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici. Firenze University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-822-4.05.

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In the poetic legacy of Vladimir Vysockij, feelings of nostalgia are expressed in diverse ways, conveying various shades of boredom, longing, and melancholy. A special role is played in Vysockij's oeuvre by the so-called “longing for a heroic era”, which is sometimes expressed explicitly, but more often found in the implicit representation of “longing for a heroic deed”. Vysockij's conception of the heroic deed or feat (podvig) casts this as a moral and spiritual state that contrasts sharply with the surrounding world and with everyday life. While Vysockian "longing for a heroic deed" can be a
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van Lit, Cornelis. "Existential Boredom and Imaginative Transcendence: Phenomenological Confluence Between Ibn ‘Arabī and Evagrius of Pontus." In Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67659-8_4.

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Thacker, Eugene. "All for Naught." In The Digital Dionysus. punctum books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.21983/p3.0149.1.11.

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In the 1830s, fleeing a cholera epidemic in Berlin, Schopenhauer writes the following in his notebook: When I was seventeen, without any proper schooling, I was affected by the misery and wretchedness of life, as was the Buddha when in his youth he caught sight of sickness, old age, pain and death [...] the result for me was that this world could not be the work of an all-bountiful, infinitely good being, but rather of a demon who had summoned into existence creatures in order to gloat over the sight of their anguish and agony.1Now, Schopenhauer was no Buddha, but the passage reveals something
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Parkes, Adam. "The Noble Style." In Modernism and the Aristocracy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192866295.003.0003.

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Abstract Both stupidity and intelligence have been associated at different times with boredom; like them, boredom has enjoyed considerable prestige among poets and philosophers as a distinctly aristocratic attitude or mood. This chapter shows how the novels of Elizabeth Bowen and Evelyn Waugh anatomize while also cultivating states of upper-class boredom in the time of waning empire. In the Englishman Waugh as in the Anglo-Irish Bowen, skepticism of democracy is joined to versions of late-imperial boredom so intractable that highly specific forms of situational boredom come to resemble a profo
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"About Boredom: Hermeneutic Looks and Existential Analysis in Modernity." In The Culture of Boredom. Brill | Rodopi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004427495_006.

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"5 Martin Heidegger’s Existential Grammar of Boredom." In Experience Without Qualities. Stanford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503624658-007.

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"Chapter 2: The Existential Sting of Boredom: Implications for Moral Judgments and Behavior." In The Moral Psychology of Boredom, edited by Andreas Elpidorou. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9781786615398-57.

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"1. Ennui in Western Literature: Boredom as Existential Malaise." In Experience Without Qualities. Stanford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503624658-003.

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"Six. Existential Worries: Excitement and Boredom in the Experience of Working Together." In Launching Europe. Princeton University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400821600.153.

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Miller, Adam S. "Notes on Life, Grace, and Atonement." In Latter-day Saint Perspectives on Atonement. University of Illinois Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045448.003.0009.

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This chapter presents, in schematic form, an original approach to a Latter-day Saint theory of atonement, focusing on the intersections among life, grace, and atonement. Working in a broadly phenomenological vein, it offers an existential account of atonement (or at-one-ment) in relation to the grace or “givenness” of life in terms of: (1) resurrection, (2) repentance, and (3) gathering and sealing. Mythological or “sequential” approaches to theology are distinguished from phenomenological or “ nonsequential ” approaches to theology. The latter are privileged. Sin is fundamentally defined as a
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Conference papers on the topic "Existential boredom"

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Rezvushkin, Kirill. "BOREDOM IN PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE AND EXISTENTIAL THERAPY APPROACHES." In 5th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES and ARTS SGEM2018. STEF92 Technology, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2018/2.2/s09.057.

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