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Brian O'Connor

Idleness

A Philosophical Essay

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For millennia, idleness and laziness have been regarded as vices. We're all expected to work to survive and get ahead, and devoting energy to anything but labor and self-improvement can seem like a luxury or a moral failure. Far from questioning this conventional wisdom, modern philosophers have worked hard to develop new reasons to denigrate idleness. In Idleness, the first book to challenge modern philosophy's portrayal of inactivity, Brian O'Connor argues that the case against an indifference to work and effort is flawed--and that idle aimlessness may instead allow for the highest form of freedom. Idleness explores how some of the most inf… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-691-16752-7
  • EAN: 9780691167527
  • Produktnummer: 24191843
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 283 g
  • Gewicht: 283

Über den Autor


Brian O'Connor is professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. He is the author of Adorno and Adorno's Negative Dialectic.

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