Lost in Thought : : The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life / / Zena Hitz.
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or co...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue. HOW WASHING DISHES RESTORED MY INTELLECTUAL LIFE
- Introduction. LEARNING, LEISURE, AND HAPPINESS
- CHAPTER 1. A Refuge from the World
- CHAPTER 2. Learning Lost and Found
- CHAPTER 3. The Uses of Uselessness
- Epilogue. THE EVERYDAY INTELLECTUAL
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX