Wolf Children and Automata: Bestiality and Boredom at Home and Abroad

Kreisel, Deanna K.

doi:10.1525/rep.2006.96.1.21

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“…In these countries the population had the now-familiar experience of the emotion of boredom, perhaps with the exception of those few who continued to work in forced labour (Kreisel 2006 The multitude of texts that have been dedicated to boredom over the course of history in its different linguistic formulations forces us to consider that it refers to a sort of intercultural apex, an emotion that affects man from the greatest depths of his being. From the Blumenberg's view (2006), boredom might be considered as the anthropogenetic state in which representatives of all cultures that have been encountered, are encountered and will be encountered as it is an inherent part of the human being.…”

Section: Xiv) Rousseau (Emile or On Education) And Kant (Anthropolomentioning

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Boredom: a comprehensive study of the state of affairs

Velasco¹

2017

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Resumen: La escasez de literatura es una de las principales quejas hechas por los investigadores del aburrimiento en todos los campos de estudio. Esta afirmación pasa de un estudio a otro sin ser cuestionada, dificultando así la comprensión del verdadero estado de la cuestión. En respuesta, este trabajo demuestra que, de hecho, no es el caso que haya una escasez de literatura sobre aburrimiento; por el contrario, existe una falta de variedad temática y problemas de accesibilidad lingüística. El artículo también refuta la afirmación de que, hasta principios del 2000, había solo unos pocos estudios en aburrimiento publicados cada año. Los resultados se basan en una amplia base de datos que incluye la población total de estudios sobre el aburrimiento y los clasifica según criterios lingüísticos, temáticos y cronológicos.Palabras clave: lenguaje, ocio, literatura, aburrimiento, patología Abstract: A literature shortage is one of the major complaints made by boredom researchers in all fields of study. This claim passes from one study to ano- Josefa Ros VelascoThémata. Revista de Filosofía Nº56 (2017) pp.: 171-198. 172 ther without being questioned, thus hampering the understanding of the true state of the issue. In response, this paper demonstrates that it is, in fact, not the case that there is a shortage of literature on boredom; rather, there exists a lack of thematic variety and issues of linguistic accessibility. The paper also falsifies the claim that, up until the beginning of the 2000, there were only a few studies on boredom published each year. The results are based on a comprehensive database which includes the total population of studies on boredom and classifies them according to linguistic, thematic and chronological criteria.

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Section: Xiv) Rousseau (Emile or On Education) And Kant (Anthropolomentioning

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Boredom: a comprehensive study of the state of affairs

Velasco¹

2017

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Boredom and Space

Parreno¹

2017

The Urban Book Series

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Thinking with Wolves

Roy¹

2022

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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This article is an examination of the career of the “wolf child”—a human child lost or sacrificed by human parents but nurtured by wolf mothers—in imperial South Asia. Notably, wolf children become a particular concern of evangelical Protestant missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; for the latter, these children featured as subjects in a miracle narrative, in which they were preserved from harm against all odds by their divinely animated lupine foster mothers. This history limns the curious trajectory that begins with an anthropology of the cultures that sacrifice children to wolves and ends in a missionary theology that claims wolf children as evidence of Christian grace and redemption. It underlines how unexpectedly significant a reckoning with the nonhuman was for evangelical theology and narrative in the colony, and how the narrative depended on trans-species alliance for imagining the operations of grace in imperial zones.

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Wolf Children and Automata: Bestiality and Boredom at Home and Abroad

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Boredom: a comprehensive study of the state of affairs

Boredom: a comprehensive study of the state of affairs

Boredom and Space

Thinking with Wolves

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