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First modern edition and translation of the homilies of one of the most important religious figures of his time.
English language --- Christian literature, English (Old) --- Christian faith. --- Holy Spirit. --- authorship. --- cognition. --- composition. --- creation. --- early England. --- homilist. --- innocents. --- lions cowed by roosters. --- moralist. --- penitence. --- prophecies. --- sermons. --- translator. --- Ælfric of Eynsham. --- History and criticism.
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A beautifully written exploration of how the way we pursue happiness makes us unhappy. We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful reflection on the roots of this malaise and examine how we might begin to cure ourselves. Drawing on the insights of Montaigne, Pascal, Rousseau, and Tocqueville, Why We Are Restless explores the modern vision of happiness that leads us on, and the disquiet that follows it like a lengthening shadow. In the sixteenth century, Montaigne articulated an original vision of human life that inspired people to see themselves as individuals dedicated to seeking contentment in the here and now, but Pascal argued that that we cannot find happiness through pleasant self-seeking, only anguished God-seeking. Rousseau later tried and failed to rescue Montaigne’s worldliness from Pascal’s attack. Steeped in these debates, Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831 and, observing a people “restless in the midst of their well-being,” discovered what happens when an entire nation seeks worldly contentment—and finds mostly discontent. Arguing that the philosophy we have inherited, despite pretending to let us live as we please, produces remarkably homogenous and unhappy lives, Why We Are Restless makes the case that finding true contentment requires rethinking our most basic assumptions about happiness.
Contentment --- Happiness --- History. --- Christianity. --- Democracy in America. --- French philosophy. --- anxiety. --- atheism. --- classical education. --- decadence. --- democracy. --- depression. --- elites. --- good life. --- history of philosophy. --- hyperactivity. --- ideal of happiness. --- immanent contentment. --- liberal education. --- materialism. --- meaning of life. --- modernity. --- moralist. --- paradox of choice. --- political philosophy. --- purpose of life. --- pursuit of happiness. --- roots of modernity. --- self. --- skepticism. --- unhappiness. --- what is happiness.
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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 exp
Laziness. --- Enlightenment --- Indolence --- Sloth --- Deadly sins --- Personality --- Bonnet de nuit. --- Bulles de savon. --- Cartesian thought. --- Denis Diderot. --- Diderot. --- Enlightenment thinking. --- Enlightenment. --- Georges-Jacques Danton. --- Jean-Jacques Rousseau. --- Jean-Simon Chardin. --- Joseph Joubert. --- Louis-Sbastien Mercier. --- Michel Foucault. --- Pierre Carlet de Marivaux. --- Pierre de Marivaux. --- Rameau's Nephew. --- alternative subjectivation. --- authority. --- bourgeois. --- contemplation. --- domestic interiors. --- dsoeuvrement. --- efficiency. --- effort. --- eighteenth century. --- functionality. --- idleness. --- idler. --- industrialization. --- journalist. --- labor. --- laziness. --- leisure. --- modernity. --- moralist. --- nonproductivity. --- philosopher. --- philosophical writings. --- philosophy. --- pillow. --- political philosopher. --- politics. --- productivity. --- sensory cogito. --- solid reality. --- subjectivity. --- subtlely. --- utopia. --- writing.
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