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THE PURSUIT OF LAZINESS
THE PURSUIT OF LAZINESS
Subtitle:
An Idle Interpretation of the Enlightenment
Book Category:
History > General
Author:
Pierre Saint-Amand. Translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780691149271
Price:
USD 32.50
Publication Year:
2011
Alternative Binding:
Ebook
Alternative ISBN 13:
9781400838714
Alternative Price:
USD 32.50

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Princeton University Press.

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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.

 

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