Enhancing Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Knowlefge Economy

This article seeks to trace the ontological foundations of emotional states by taking Martin Heidegger's concept of boredom as a central model for revealing the structure of Dasein. It follows a path that begins by clarifying emotionality as a horizon of openness to Being, focusing on boredom as a fundamental emotional state that characterizes modern man. The article then moves to Jan Patočka, who partially intersects with Heidegger in considering boredom as a surrender to the monotony of the everyday, causing a loss of authenticity. However, Patočka cautions that escaping this boredom is only achieved through an existential upheaval that sets the self on the path to authenticity. Finally, the article considers the critical approaches of Lars Svendsen and Peter Toohey, who have shifted the discussion of boredom from the purely ontological realm to the domains of history, culture, and biology. The study adopted the analytical and comparative method to interrogate philosophical texts and highlight the intersections between them, and concluded in its most important results that boredom is not just a passing psychological state, but rather an ontological fact that puts man back in front of the reality of his existence and reveals the dilemma of meaning in modernity, which makes emotion an essential entry point for understanding the relationship of the self to the world and to the totality.