Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey

Boredom: A Lively History

Peter Toohey

224 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy psychology informative slow-paced
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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 constr...

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