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Hodgkinson Tom - How To Be Idle A Loafer's Manifesto - Paperback
Hodgkinson Tom - How To Be Idle A Loafer's Manifesto - Paperback
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Description: Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule - obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing The Idler comes not simply a book but an antidote to our work - obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler sleep work pleasure relationships bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Johnson and Nietzsche all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed. It's a well - known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it's only befitting that one of them the very clever extremely engaging and quite hilarious Tom Hodgkinson should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of being idle. Following on the quirky call - to - arms heels of the bestselling Eat Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss How to Be Idle rallies us to an equally just and no less worthy cause: reclaiming our right to be idle.
Title: How To Be Idle A Loafer's Manifesto
Author(s): Hodgkinson Tom
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060779696
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/24/2007
Description: Yearning for a life of leisure? In 24 chapters representing each hour of a typical working day this book will coax out the loafer in even the most diligent and schedule - obsessed worker. From the founding editor of the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing The Idler comes not simply a book but an antidote to our work - obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard of living: being happy doing nothing. He covers a whole spectrum of issues affecting the modern idler sleep work pleasure relationships bemoaning the cultural skepticism of idleness while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Johnson and Nietzsche all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed. It's a well - known fact that Europeans spend fewer hours at work a week than Americans. So it's only befitting that one of them the very clever extremely engaging and quite hilarious Tom Hodgkinson should have the wittiest and most useful insights into the fun and nature of being idle. Following on the quirky call - to - arms heels of the bestselling Eat Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss How to Be Idle rallies us to an equally just and no less worthy cause: reclaiming our right to be idle.
Title: How To Be Idle A Loafer's Manifesto
Author(s): Hodgkinson Tom
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060779696
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/24/2007
