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Title: | Kierkegaard's Demonic Boredom | Contributor(s): | McDonald, William (author) | Publication Date: | 2009 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5566 | Abstract: | Kierkegaard diagnoses modem boredom as both a social phenomenon and as an individual malaise. He focuses on a distinctive second-order form of boredom, "demonic boredom," in which the reflective aesthete affects boredom in order to overcome it through irony. Modern boredom is construed as an aesthetic and psychological problem, which consists in a lack of resources to make life "interesting." Its antidotes are taken to be distraction or the subjective injection of "the interesting." Kierkegaard argues that the modern conceptions of boredom and its antidotes are flawed, since they ignore the spiritual dimensions of 'acedia'. Demonic boredom is a mood, rather than an emotion, and fails to seek its only real antidote in the passion of faith, which can be ignited through spiritual exercises, heartfelt concern for others, temporal reorientation of the self towards eternity, and through finding the "fullness of time" in the life of Christ. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Essays on Boredom and Modernity, p. 61-84 | Publisher: | Rodopi | Place of Publication: | Amsterdam, Netherlands | ISBN: | 9789042025660 9042025662 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 170111 Psychology of Religion 220405 Religion and Society 220209 History of Ideas |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950404 Religion and Society 950504 Understanding Europes Past 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies |
HERDC Category Description: | B2 Chapter in a Book - Other | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/28436166 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nyE21THwxhUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA61 |
Series Name: | Critical Studies | Series Number : | 31 | Editor: | Editor(s): Barbara Dalle Pezze and Carlo Salzani |
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