Boredom: A Lively History

by Peter Toohey

Book Overview

A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish

In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential malaise like Jean-Paul Sartre's nausea. He shows how boredom is, in fact, one of our most common and constructive emotions and is an essential part of the human experience.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181841
• ISBN13: 9780300181845
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"