Boredom and time

The presented work attracts our attention to boredom that we considered in two directions: positive and negative. Boredom can be situational and fundamental. From the philosophical view the problem of boredom is becoming actual while such new values of the current era as novelty, singularity, pluralism and cosmopolitism appear. Boredom is said to be a product of the post-industrial society. The article examines relations between the fundamental state of boredom and time. From that point there are two aspects: historicity of boredom and existentialism of boredom out of time. On the general cultural level boredom had its development. For example, there was no such concept in Ancient Greece, during the Middle Ages boredom was a moral concept and in the modern time it became a body disease and melancholy. In contemporaneity a great number of people run into boredom. Various forms of indemnification or care of this negative state are transformed through culture, which creates many recipes, both positive and negative. At the same time boredom as existentialism is a constant attribute of human being. Perception in the fundamental state is special; time does not pass within boredom. There exist no actions, aims, roles, and plots. Boredom has redundant duration that is unfilled and empty. Boredom is related to the concept other, where other can precede anyone or anything: (an)other man, God or even television. The connection of I and Other in boredom is realized in different ways, as attempts of realization and avoidance through a look outside. So, due to boredom a person gives up the outside fillers of his/her mind and stays alone. As existentialism, boredom is possibility for reflection. Relations between boredom and time are quiet undefined. If boredom as a fundamental state is redundant duration how is it possible that it may not exist at some historical moment? Probably, the existentialism described had different pseudonyms in different languages such as suffering, melancholy, indifference, grief, lethargy, languor, spleen and so on. Fundamental boredom always stays inside of people but it has become acute in the values of our epoch. Among philosophers it is possible to find many sayings about boredom, but as an independent problem boredom attracted attention of few philosophers: A. Schopenhauer, M. Heidegger, A. Camus, L. Svendsen et al. The theme has been studied before, but insufficiently. The interest to this theme increases notedly, as more and more journalists, people of art, especially modern writers, psychologists, etc. address the phenomenon of boredom

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