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<p>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? <i>The Pursuit of Laziness</i> 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 thinking in the works of Denis Didero
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- Author
- Pierre Saint-Amand
- Publisher
- Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400838714
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, History, Political
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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