Notes on Contributors Introduction: Histories of Boredom Andreas Elpidorou and Josefa Ros Velasco
Part1: 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
Part2: 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
Part3: 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
Part4: 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