The pursuit of laziness [electronic resource] : an idle interpretation of the Enlightenment / Pierre Saint-Amand ; translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage.

9781400838714 (electronic bk.)
9780691148724
9780691149271

Princeton [N.J.] : Princeton University Press, 2011.

English

1 online resource (x, 156 p.) : ill., ports.

B802 .S25 2011eb

190.9/033

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.

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