David Foster Wallace: The Pale King

Kai Frederik Lorentzen lorentzen at hotmail.de
Mon Mar 2 07:01:58 CST 2009


re: boredom as antidote
 
 
In his phenomenology of boredom, Heidegger developed this idea already
in the late 1920s. Boredom --- like deep anxiety or, for that matter,
ecstasy (no pun intended) --- is able to set one free from all learned
conventions and lead us into the Open ...
 
 
Martin Heidegger: Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Welt - Endlichkeit
 - Einsamkeit (Freiburger Vorlesung Wintersemester 1929/30), pp. 111-260.

 
Boredom "becomes WIDE AWAKE only if we do not act against it" (p. 240). 
 
 
kfl
 
 



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