Abstract

HERNANDEZ ALBARRACIN, Juan Diego; ALVAREZ GONZALEZ, Carlos Fernando  and  PALLARES PIQUER, Marc. Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Existence: A Cinematographic Analytic of Boredom in Modern Times. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2022, n.62, pp.193-222.  Epub Mar 28, 2022. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v62i0.1624.

This paper presents philosophical perspectives related to the concept of boredom (Langeweile) from the point of view of its forms (“because of…”, “in…”, “one gets bored”) and structural modes (leaving empty spaces and postponing) as developed by Martin Heidegger in his lectures at the University of Freiburg during the winter semesters of 1929 and 1930. We highlight a philosophical stance often overlooked in comparison to more traditional positions in Western philosophical thought-through the proposed hermeneutic-phenomenological processes, this will allow us to interweave their philosophical images with cinematographic narratives that enrich the factual understanding of modernity. For this reason, we assume boredom and its essence, “tediousness” (Langweiligkeit), as the fundamental mood (Grundstimmung) of our era, thus permitting other mobilities of thought that warrant a study of phenomena relating to cultural entertainment as a symptom of the modern disease that distances Dasein from meeting, questioning, and self-care.

Keywords : boredom; modernity; mood; Dasein; self-care.