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Title:
The pursuit of laziness : an idle interpretation of the enlightenment
Author:
Saint-Amand, Pierre, 1957-
ISBN:
9781400838714

9780691148724
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 156 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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 idle.
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