The History and Philosophy of Boredom (Hardcover, 1)

Notes on Contributors??Introduction: Histories of Boredom?Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco??Part 1: Ancient Philosophical Perspectives??1. Boredom as a Vice of the Mind. The Contrastive Method of Socratic Dialogue?Laura Candiotto??2. East Side Story: Daoism and Buddhism on the Nature of Boredom?Seok Bongrae??3. Ancient Cynics on Boredom: Only the Boring Are Bored?Glenn M. Trujillo, Jr.??4. Boredom in Seneca’s?Epistles: Sameness and Stoic Aesthetics?Chiara Graf??Part 2: Religious and Medieval Explorations??5. Boredom in Jewish Tradition: Longing for Radical Amazement?Erica Brown??6. The Sin of Our Age: Acedia in Early Christianity and in the Present?Peter Toohey and Danielle Greenberg??7. Make Grace Come Green Again: Medieval Perspectives on Boredom?Michael L. Raposa??8. Noetic Boredom: Acedia, Dejection, and the Virtues in the Philokalia and Tibetan Buddhism?Thomas Cattoi??Part 3: Modern Philosophical Investigations??9. A Mental Diatetic to Avoid (European) Boredom: Kant as a Life Coach?Nuria Sanchez Madrid??10. Boredom, Motivation, and the Value of Life: Schopenhauer, Mill, and Nietzsche?Joshua Isaac Fox??11. Boredom in Philosophical Pessimism: Philipp Mainlander?Ignacio Moya Arriagada??12. Boredom, Despair, and Faith in Kierkegaard?Megan Altman and Adam Buben??Part 4: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches??13. Is There Intentionality in Boredom? Phenomenological Perspectives?Carmen Lopez Saenz??14. The Experience of Boredom in Classical Contemporaneity?Josefa Ros Velasco??15. Spectacular Desolation: Boredom as a Political Phenomenon?Elizabeth S. Goodstein??16. Capitalism, Socialism, Boredom: The “Object as Comrade”?Michael E. Gardiner??17. Racialized Boredom?Sierra Sheard and Andreas Elpidorou??18. Transhumanism: The tedium and Dilemmas of Transcending the Mortal Condition?Esther Sanchez Gonzalez.??Index