TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - The pursuit of lazinessan idle interpretation of the Enlightenment /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - Princeton [N.J.] :
AU  - Saint-Amand, Pierre,
CN  - Ebrary
CN  - B802
PB  - Princeton University Press,
PP  - Princeton [N.J.] :
PY  - 2011.
ID  - 456954
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Laziness.
SN  - 9781400838714 (electronic bk.)
TI  - The pursuit of lazinessan idle interpretation of the Enlightenment /
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