The Pursuit of Laziness: An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment an Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment

by Pierre Saint-Amand and Jennifer Curtiss Gage

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149275
• ISBN13: 9780691149271
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"