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- Publication Name
- The Right to Be Lazy
- Title
- The Right to Be Lazy
- Subtitle
- And Other Writings
- EAN
- 9781681376820
- ISBN
- 9781681376820
- Release Date
- 11/15/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Right to Be Lazy : and Other Writings
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Political, Sociology / Social Theory
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 5.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 136 Pages
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Now in a new translation, a classic nineteenth-century defense for the cause of idleness by a revolutionary writer and activist (and Karl Marx's son-in law) that reshaped European ideas of labor and production. Exuberant, provocative, and as controversial as when it first appeared in 1880, Paul Lafargue's The Right to Be Lazy is a call for the workers of the world to unite-and stop working so much! Lafargue, Karl Marx's son-in-law (about whom Marx once said, "If he is a Marxist, then I am clearly not") wrote his pamphlet on the virtues of laziness while in prison for giving a socialist speech. At once a timely argument for a three-hour workday and a classical defense of leisure, The Right to Be Lazy shifted the course of European thought, going through seventeen editions in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and helping shape John Maynard Keynes's ideas about overproduction. Published here with a selection of Lafargue's other writings-including an essay on Victor Hugo and a memoir of Marx- The Right to Be Lazy reminds us that the urge to work is not always beneficial, let alone necessary. It can also be a "strange madness" consuming human lives.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681376822
ISBN-13
9781681376820
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9057282838
Product Key Features
Book Title
Right to Be Lazy : and Other Writings
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Labor & Industrial Relations, Economics / General, Political, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hd5106.L2213 2022
Reviews
"These piercing essays from socialist Lafargue offer a valuable window into early Marxist thinking. . . . these pieces speak to the present moment, when pandemic-related disruptions have provoked reconsiderations of where, how, and why people work. Readers will relish this incendiary blast from the past." -- Publishers Weekly "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "With scathing wit, Lafargue takes aim at the ideological underpinnings of late-stage capitalism. . . . A sly, irreverent sibling to The Communist Manifesto , Lafargue's argument against our willing servitude to what we'd now call hustle culture and growth-at-all-costs is as trenchant and necessary as the day it was written, if not more so." --David Wright, Library Journal "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." -- Michael Autrey, Booklist "[Lafargue's] ideas are even more relevant to today's enslaved societies than they were when they were first written." --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." -- Michael Autrey, Booklist "[Lafargue's] ideas are even more relevant to today's enslaved societies than they were when they were first written." --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, "These piercing essays from socialist Lafargue offer a valuable window into early Marxist thinking. . . . these pieces speak to the present moment, when pandemic-related disruptions have provoked reconsiderations of where, how, and why people work. Readers will relish this incendiary blast from the past." -- Publishers Weekly "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "With scathing wit, Lafargue takes aim at the ideological underpinnings of late-stage capitalism. . . . A sly, irreverent sibling to The Communist Manifesto , Lafargue's argument against our willing servitude to what we'd now call hustle culture and growth-at-all-costs is as trenchant and necessary as the day it was written, if not more so." --David Wright, Library Journal "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." -- Michael Autrey, Booklist "[Lafargue's] ideas are even more relevant to today's enslaved societies than they were when they were first written." --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler " The Right to Be Lazy points explicitly to the ridiculousness of our clamoring to work the hardest; to prove ourselves the best and most tireless." --Garth Miró, Southwest Review, "Lafargue's mordant approach is still effective 140 years later." --Lily Meyer, The Atlantic "[T]he fact that things didn't turn out as Lafargue hoped. . . . takes nothing away from the cogency, the sparkle, the sheer fun of The Right to Be Lazy ." --Mitch Abidor, Jewish Currents "These piercing essays from socialist Lafargue offer a valuable window into early Marxist thinking. . . . these pieces speak to the present moment, when pandemic-related disruptions have provoked reconsiderations of where, how, and why people work. Readers will relish this incendiary blast from the past." -- Publishers Weekly "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." --Michael Autrey, Booklist "With scathing wit, Lafargue takes aim at the ideological underpinnings of late-stage capitalism. . . . A sly, irreverent sibling to The Communist Manifesto , Lafargue's argument against our willing servitude to what we'd now call hustle culture and growth-at-all-costs is as trenchant and necessary as the day it was written, if not more so." --David Wright, Library Journal "The writing is vivid, pointed, hilarious. To paraphrase Elizabeth Bishop, Lafargue is scathing, but cheerful." -- Michael Autrey, Booklist "[Lafargue's] ideas are even more relevant to today's enslaved societies than they were when they were first written." --Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler " The Right to Be Lazy points explicitly to the ridiculousness of our clamoring to work the hardest; to prove ourselves the best and most tireless." --Garth Miró, Southwest Review
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2022-010814
Dewey Decimal
331.25/7
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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