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Auteur(s) : O'Connor, Brian (1965-....)
Titre(s) : Idleness [Texte imprimé] : a philosophical essay / Brian O'Connor
Publication : Princeton (N. J.) ; Oxford : Princeton university press, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (203 p.) ; 21 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. [187]-200. Index
"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 influential modern philosophers drew a direct
connection between making the most of our humanity and avoiding laziness. Idleness
was dismissed as contrary to the need people have to become autonomous and make whole,
integrated beings of themselves (Kant); to be useful (Kant and Hegel); to accept communal
norms (Hegel); to contribute to the social good by working (Marx); and to avoid boredom
(Schopenhauer and de Beauvoir). O'Connor throws doubt on all these arguments, presenting
a sympathetic vision of the inactive and unserious that draws on more productive ideas
about idleness, from ancient Greece through Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,
Schiller and Marcuse's thoughts about the importance of play, and recent critiques
of the cult of work. A thought-provoking reconsideration of productivity for the twenty-first
century, Idleness shows that, from now on, no theory of what it means to have a free
mind can exclude idleness from the conversation."-- Jaquette
Sujet(s) : Oisiveté -- Philosophie
Liberté -- Philosophie
Loisirs -- Philosophie
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.48 (23e éd.) = Loisirs et arts du spectacle (sociologie) ; 190 (23e éd.) = Philosophie occidentale moderne et autres philosophies non orientales
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691167527. - ISBN 0691167524
EAN 9780691167527
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45621397w
Notice n° :
FRBNF45621397
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Table des matières : Introduction: philosophy and idleness ; Our worthiness for freedom ; Work, idleness,
and respect ; The challenges of boredom ; Play as idleness ; Idleness as freedom.
