Filozoficzne paradoksy nudy
The Philosophical Paradoxes of Boredom

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of boredom, which people know from experience, is also an object of study in various disciplines, including philosophy. The authors consider an essential component of boredom to be the feeling of senselessness, of emptiness. Ordinarily, it is thought that what is banal, repetitive, unvaried, or devoid of the element of surprise is boring. A philosophical analysis of boredom, showing its various aspects, turns out in this context not to be boring – the views of various authors, including Kierkegaard, Wolter, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Svendsen, Kołakowski, and Gadacz form paradoxes of sorts, full of the elements of contrast and apparent contradiction.

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