[lit-ideas] Re: Heidegger on Boredom
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 14:04:21 +0200
so herr heidegger is bored by his wife, his job and so forth. is that why
he wanted to become dean?
or what? the crash and the crux here is that the main problem is to show in
this so called "non human" non humanistic frame why anyone ELSE oughto to
be moved by the private idiocies of a professor
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As it turns out, a lot can happen in boredom--for Heidegger, at least. In
> Part II of the*Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, *Heidegger begins his
> elucidation of human existence by asking what happens in being bored.
> Phenomenologically speaking, boredom is the state of being such that one's
> time feels lengthened. This sense is captured in the German word,
> *Langeweile*, literally a "long while." Boredom is not only a
> potentially depressing state, the feeling of being left empty and
> withdrawn. It can also be an oppressive experience. Boredom becomes
> oppressive when time becomes something whose duration one has to endure,
> like waiting for a train, listening to a long lecture, or reading and
> writing about boredom for your advisor, perhaps. In boredom, time weighs
> heavily; it presses in on us in such a way that one feels dragged by a time
> that seems to endlessly drag on.
>
> http://belate.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/what-is-world-heidegger/
>
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