THE SYSTEMIC AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRACTICES OF ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT CALL FOR CHAPTERS FOR EDITED BOOK The volume editors: Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Gdańsk, Poland) mariusz.finkielsztein@gmail.com Izabela Wagner (Université Paris Cité, France) izabela.wagner@u-paris.fr The academic field is a competitive job market in developed countries, forming part of a social and intellectual elite where prestige…
The text is based on Finkielsztein, M. (2021). Boredom and Academic Work. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 38-42. What is boredom seems to be pretty obvious in our globalized world but do different languages and cultures actually understand it in the same way? Do the closest equivalents of the Anglo-Saxon ‘boredom’ in other languages…
As the popular statement goes, intelligent people never get bored. And since, as Descartes noted, the reason is the best-distributed thing in the world – as everyone thinks they are well supplied with it – the greater part of humanity maintains that they are never bored. However, as Flaubert pointed out some time ago, human…
MARIUSZ FINKIELSZTEIN, Ph.D. 