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L’ennui, du tout au néant
Ennui, from everything to nothingness

Author(s): Marco Bélanger
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: boredom;disenchantment;reason;nothingness;absolute

Summary/Abstract: Je me propose de rendre compte de l’ennui existentiel comme expériencelimite de la perte, de l’absence et du vide. Sous cet angle, je montrerai que les frontières auxquelles nous pousse cette triple expérience-limite mettent en jeu deux figures opposées et extrêmes de la pensée : celle du néant, certes, mais aussi celle du tout, l’une imbriquée dans l’autre, ce qui me permettra de mettre en lumière une façon synthétique de voir l’ennui existentiel. J’en tirerai, en conclusion, une éthique de l’ennui. In this paper, I propose an understanding of existential boredom as the limit experience of loss, absence and emptiness. From this point of view, I show that the borders to which we are pushed by this triple limit-experience bring into play two opposed and extreme forms of thought: that of nothingness, certainly, but also that of the whole, nothingness being essentially connected with the whole. In so doing, I attempt to bring into light a synthetic manner of interpreting existential boredom. On this basis, I conclude by proposing an ethics of boredom.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 67-81
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French