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Boredom

A Lively History

by Peter Toohey

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 13.7 x 21.4 x 1.7 cm

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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 the human experience. This informative and entertaining investigation of boredom - what it is and what it isn't, its uses and its dangers - spans more than 3,000 years of history and takes readers through fascinating neurological and psychological theories of emotion, as well as recent scientific investigations, to illustrate its role in our lives. There are Australian aboriginals and bored Romans, Jeffrey Archer and caged cockatoos, Camus and the early Christians, Durer and Degas. Toohey also explores the important role that boredom plays in popular and highbrow culture and how over the centuries it has proven to be a stimulus for art and literature. Toohey shows that boredom is a universal emotion experienced by humans throughout history and he explains its place, and value, in today's world. "Boredom" is for anyone interested in what goes on when supposedly nothing happens.

  • Author

    Peter Toohey

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    March 2012

  • Weight

    258g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    13.7 x 21.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300181845

  • ISBN-10

    0300181841

  • Eden Code

    4570496

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