Lars Fr. H. Svendsen Quotes

#1. A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

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#2. Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.

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#3. Heidegger's concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means 'being-there'.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.

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#4. One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

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#5. For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

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#6. Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

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#7. Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

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#8. Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

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#9. Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity.

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#10. The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire

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#11. We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.

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