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The pursuit of laziness : an idle interpretation of the enlightenment /
We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? The Pursuit of Laziness examines moral, political, and econom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Indeterminado |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? The Pursuit of Laziness examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book explores idleness in all its guises, and illustrates that laziness existed, not as a vice of the wretched, but as an exemplar of modernity and a resistance to beliefs about virtue and utility. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 156 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400838714 1400838711 9780691148724 0691148724 9786613069580 6613069582 |