TY - BOOK AU - Goodstein,Elizabeth S. TI - Experience without qualities: boredom and modernity PY - 2005/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Boredom KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-448) and index; The rhetoric of boredom -- Ennui in western literature : boredom as existential malaise -- The normalization of anomie : boredom as sociological symptom -- Boredom and the modernization of subjectivity -- Georg Simmel's phenomenology of modern skepticism -- Martin Heidegger's existential grammar of boredom -- Being without qualities : Robert Musil and the self-overcoming of skepticism -- Boredom and the rhetoric of reflection on modernity N2 - "Although boredom appears to be a perennial feature of the human condition, it is linked to ways of experiencing time and thinking about human existence that are recognizably modern. By tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, "Experience Without Qualities" makes a contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity."--Jacket UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40044 ER -