Table of Contents for
Experience Without Qualities
Introduction: The Rhetoric of Boredom
PART I: THE RHETORIC OF EXPERIENCE
1. Ennui in Western Literature: Boredom as Existential Malaise
2. The Normalization of Anomie: Boredom as Sociological Symptom
3. Boredom and the Modernization of Subjectivity
PART II: THE RHETORIC OF REFLECTION
4. Georg Simmel's Phenomenology of Modern Skepticism
5. Martin Heidegger's Existential Grammar of Boredom
6. Being without Qualities: Robert Musil and the Self-Overcoming of Skepticism
Conclusion: Boredom and the Rhetoric of Reflection on Modernity
Bibliography
Index