How to Be Idle

A Loafer's Manifesto

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Humour & Comedy, General Humour, Health & Well Being, Self Help
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Author: Tom Hodgkinson ISBN: 9780062313416
Publisher: Harper Perennial Publication: July 30, 2013
Imprint: Harper Perennial Language: English
Author: Tom Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9780062313416
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication: July 30, 2013
Imprint: Harper Perennial
Language: English

From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom 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—while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed.

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From the founding editor of The Idler, the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle, Tom 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—while reflecting on the writing of such famous apologists for it as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Nietzsche—all of whom have admitted to doing their very best work in bed.

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