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A Philosophy of Boredom Lars Svendsen
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Carlin Romano was not at all bored by Lars Svendsen's A Philosophy of Boredom: Looking at boredom, but making it interesting. The similarities with buddhism are uncanny. Should I feel sympathy for those who are indifferent, for the existentially bored? I can't deny feeling an empathy with the profoundly bored, but should I sympathize with them? The One Good Thing About Boredom is… A philosopher once said, “The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom”. Lars Svendsen (A Philosophy of Boredom, trans. What I mean is boredom as a philosophical stance, as a desirable mental state. A review of the talk by Lars Svendsen on his book The Philosophy of Boredom at the Shanghai International Literary Festival. Heh, on the first day of class, I usually make the arguement that a necessary condition of philosophy is boredom of a certain kind. Department of Management, Politics, Philosophy and History Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Boredom: Life and Work after the Experience Economy April 12-13, 2012.