Publication: El aburrimiento como presión selectiva en Hans Blumenberg
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2018-01-15
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El aburrimiento es concebido en la actualidad como un fenómeno que afecta al ser humano como si de una patología psicológica se tratase, mientras una minoría de pensadores están encaminando sus esfuerzos a recalcar su faceta más positiva por contrapartida: la compulsión a la acción. La comprensión del aburrimiento como motor que impulsa el movimiento hacia la búsqueda de lo novedoso y que impide la quietud se encontraba ya presente en la filosofía del siglo pasado y especialmente en las publicaciones de Hans Blumenberg. Sin embargo, un tratamiento del mismo desde su naturaleza antropológica ha quedado relegado a una serie de documentos inéditos y de difícil acceso que componen el Nachlaβ del filósofo alemán y que descansan en el DLA. Aquellos vuelven sobre el estudio de las condiciones de vida de nuestros más remotos ancestros para mostrar que el aburrimiento pudo haber estado presente en los orígenes de nuestra especie y pudo haber sido una condición de posibilidad del desarrollo de algunos de los aspectos que nos caracterizan como el lenguaje y el pensamiento abstracto. Esta línea de trabajo, desconocida hasta el momento, puede ayudar a reforzar y complementar las propuestas de los investigadores que en el presente tratan de defender el carácter ineludible del aburrimiento desde una perspectiva optimista como si de una presión selectiva se tratase.
Boredom is currently conceived as a phenomenon that affects humans from a psychological pathological view whereas a minority of thinkers are directing their efforts to stress its most positive aspects on the contrary: the compulsion to action. Understanding of boredom as a motor that drives the movement toward novelty seeking and stillness prevention was already present in the philosophy of the past century and especially in Hans Blumenberg’s publications. However, the treatment from its anthropogenetic nature has been relegated to a series of unpublished and inaccesible documents which rest in the Nachlaβ of the German philosopher. Those return to the study of the lives of our earliest ancestors to show that boredom may have been present at the origins of our species and may have been a condition of possibility of the development of some aspects that characterize us such us language and abstract thought. This line so far unknown can help reinforce and complement the proposals of the researchers in this attempt to defend the inescapable character of boredom from an optimistic view as if it were a selective pressure.
Boredom is currently conceived as a phenomenon that affects humans from a psychological pathological view whereas a minority of thinkers are directing their efforts to stress its most positive aspects on the contrary: the compulsion to action. Understanding of boredom as a motor that drives the movement toward novelty seeking and stillness prevention was already present in the philosophy of the past century and especially in Hans Blumenberg’s publications. However, the treatment from its anthropogenetic nature has been relegated to a series of unpublished and inaccesible documents which rest in the Nachlaβ of the German philosopher. Those return to the study of the lives of our earliest ancestors to show that boredom may have been present at the origins of our species and may have been a condition of possibility of the development of some aspects that characterize us such us language and abstract thought. This line so far unknown can help reinforce and complement the proposals of the researchers in this attempt to defend the inescapable character of boredom from an optimistic view as if it were a selective pressure.
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filosofía, leída el 25-04-2017