The reason that prompted me to write this book was the intense boredom I experienced for a considerable period. However, what made me aware of the importance of this topic was the death of a dear friend of mine due to an episode of boredom he had suffered. I had reached a point where I found myself agreeing with Arthur Rimbaud when he said, “Boredom is no longer my love.” Boredom no longer felt like just an innocent state or a trivial obstacle. Suddenly, Rimbaud’s complaint about “killer boredom” became a serious matter, and this expression later spread into pop and rock songs, such as “Bored to Death” by G.G. Allin and “Something to Do” by Depeche Mode, which both epitomized our entire lives. I then realized that this experience was not limited to my close group of friends; rather, it pointed to a serious issue in the concept of “meaning” in our contemporary culture as a whole. Exploring the problem of boredom is our attempt to understand our human nature and how we interact with the world around us nowadays. The more I contemplated this issue, the more it became clear to me that boredom is a fundamental and influential factor in understanding our contemporary culture. We live in a culture of boredom, and the book Philosophy of Boredom seeks to address this very phenomenon.