Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural history We meet on a train

We meet on a train

stony corals

But Mom and Dad immediately say no—the Pinkertons always get real trees for the holidays

neighbourhood bullies

rabbit feet

Critique of Bored Reason Social & cultural history We meet on a trainMost of the core concepts of the Western philosophical tradition originate in antiquity. Yet boredom is strikingly absent from classical thought. In this philosophical study, Dmitri Nikulin explores the concept's genealogy to argue that boredom is the mark of modernity. Nikulin contends that boredom is a specifically modern phenomenon. He provides a critical reconstruction of the concept of the modern subject as universal, rational, autonomous, and