The Right to Be Lazy
The Right to Be Lazy
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The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
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.Paul La Farge is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999) and Haussmann, or the Dis-tinction (FSG, 2001); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Win-ter. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney's, Harper's Magazine, Fence, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in The Believer, Bookforum, Playboy, and Cabinet. He lives in upstate New York.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781681376820 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681376822 |
| Titel | The Right to Be Lazy |
| Autor | Paul Lafargue |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-11-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 200 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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