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Lost in Thought : The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life /
"In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody are judged by their usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue. How Washing Dishes Restored My Intellectual Life
- Introduction. Learning, Leisure, and Happiness
- Chapter 1. A Refuge from the World
- Chapter 2. Learning Lost and Found
- Chapter 3. The Uses of Uselessness
- Epilogue. The Everyday Intellectual
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index