Obstruction

by Nick Salvato

Book Overview

Can a bout of laziness or a digressive spell actually open up paths to creativity and unexpected insights? In Obstruction Nick Salvato suggests that for those engaged in scholarly pursuits laziness, digressiveness, and related experiences can be paradoxically generative. Rather than being dismissed as hindrances, these obstructions are to be embraced, clung to, and reoriented. Analyzing an eclectic range of texts and figures, from the Greek Cynics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360985
• ISBN13: 9780822360988
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"