Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171486
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171486
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The elusive French luminary Joseph Joubert is a great explorer of the mind's open spaces. Edited and translated by Paul Auster, this selection from Joubert's notebooks introduces a master of the enigmatic who seeks "to call everything by its true name" while asking us to "remember everything is double." "Joubert speaks in whispers," Auster writes. "One must draw very close to hear what he is saying."
Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Pensées of Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : fr
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : fr
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Years in Europe
Author: George Henry Calvert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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The Pursuit of Laziness
Author: Pierre Saint-Amand
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838711
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book explores idleness in all its guises, and illustrates that laziness existed, not as a vice of the wretched, but as an exemplar of modernity and a resistance to beliefs about virtue and utility. Whether in the dawdlings of Marivaux's journalist who delayed and procrastinated or in the subjects of Chardin's paintings who delighted in suspended, playful time, Pierre Saint-Amand shows how eighteenth-century works provided a strong argument for laziness. Rousseau abandoned his previous defense of labor to pursue reverie and botanical walks, Diderot emphasized a parasitic strategy of resisting work in order to liberate time, and Joubert's little-known posthumous Notebooks radically opposed the central philosophy of the Enlightenment in a quest to infinitely postpone work. Unsettling the stubborn view of the eighteenth century as an age of frenetic industriousness and labor, The Pursuit of Laziness plumbs the texts and images of the time and uncovers deliberate yearnings for slowness and recreation. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400838711
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
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, and reveals that crucial eighteenth-century texts did find value in idleness and nonproductivity. Fleshing out Enlightenment thinking in the works of Denis Diderot, Joseph Joubert, Pierre de Marivaux, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Siméon Chardin, this book explores idleness in all its guises, and illustrates that laziness existed, not as a vice of the wretched, but as an exemplar of modernity and a resistance to beliefs about virtue and utility. Whether in the dawdlings of Marivaux's journalist who delayed and procrastinated or in the subjects of Chardin's paintings who delighted in suspended, playful time, Pierre Saint-Amand shows how eighteenth-century works provided a strong argument for laziness. Rousseau abandoned his previous defense of labor to pursue reverie and botanical walks, Diderot emphasized a parasitic strategy of resisting work in order to liberate time, and Joubert's little-known posthumous Notebooks radically opposed the central philosophy of the Enlightenment in a quest to infinitely postpone work. Unsettling the stubborn view of the eighteenth century as an age of frenetic industriousness and labor, The Pursuit of Laziness plumbs the texts and images of the time and uncovers deliberate yearnings for slowness and recreation. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Pensées and Letters of Joseph Joubert
Author: Joseph Joubert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Bluets
Author: Maggie Nelson
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517646
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1933517646
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . . A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists. Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa Press, 2007). She lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.
A Need to Kill
Author: Michael W. Cuneo
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312381547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevin's parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312381547
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevin's parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime.
One of Ours
Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive