Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness Concepts

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

by Bertrand Russell · 1 Jan 1935 · 12pp · 5,028 words

Table of Contents Preface I - In Praise of Idleness II - "Useless" Knowledge III - Architecture and Social Questions IV - The Modern Midas V - The Ancestry of Fascism VI - Scylla and Charybdis, or Communism and

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OF CHINA ON EDUCATION Sixth Impression EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL ORDER MARRIAGE AND MORALS Fifth Impression With Dora Russell THE PROSPECTS OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION Third Impression With Scott Nearing BOLSHEVISM AND THE WEST BERTRAND RUSSELL IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS AND OTHER ESSAYS LONDON GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD MUSEUM STREET FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1935 All rights reserved

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in this volume, some are new, while others, which have been already published in magazines, are here reprinted by the kind permission of the editors. “In Praise of Idleness” and “The Modern Midas” appeared in Harpers Magazine·, “The Ancestry of Fascism” (under a different title) appeared in The Political Quarterly in England and

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in The New Statesman and Nation. I have also to acknowledge the assistance of Peter Spence in suggesting and discussing many of the subjects. CONTENTS IN PRAISE OF IDLENESS 9 “USELESS” KNOWLEDGE 30 ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIAL QUESTIONS 47 THE MODERN MIDAS 62 THE ANCESTRY OF FASCISM 82 SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, OR COMMUNISM AND

Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words

pp. 89, 109 16 See Nicolas Walter, Freedom (21 April 1962) 17 Russell, Autobiography, op. cit., II, 154 18 Harper, ‘Russell and the Anarchists’, op. cit., p. 75 19 Russell, In Praise of Idleness (1932) (Allen & Unwin, 1963), p. 11 20 Preface to Principles

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cit., I, 168 21 Joll, The Anarchists, op. cit., p. 259 22 Orwell, Poetry Quarterly (Autumn 1945) 23 See Russell, In Praise of Idleness, op. cit., p. 11 24 Shaw, ‘The Impossibilities of Anarchism’, op. cit., p. 508 25 Camillo Berneri, ‘

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Russell, Bertrand, Principles of Social Reconstruction (1916) (Allen & Unwin, 1971) Russell, Bertrand, Roads to Freedom; Socialism, Anarchism, Syndicalism (1918) (Allen & Unwin, 1973) Russell, Bertrand, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935) (Allen & Unwin, 1963) Russell, Bertrand, Power: A New Social Analysis (Basis Books, 1940) Russell, Bertrand, Authority and the Individual (Allen & Unwin, 1949) Russell, Bertrand, History of Western Philosophy (Allen & Unwin, 1962) Russell, Bertrand

How to Be Idle

by Tom Hodgkinson · 1 Jan 2004 · 354pp · 93,882 words

nature . . . How did the bloody-minded and freedom-loving Brits allow themselves to become servants of capitalism, a ' Slave State ' as Bertrand Russell put it, in his 1 932 essay ' In Praise of Idleness ' ? The great problem of the Industrial Revolution was how to transform a population of strongwilled, independent-minded, heavy-drinking, partyorientated, riot

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technology has been a complete disaster when it comes to lightening the load. Laboursaving devices have not saved any labour. In his essential text ' In Praise of Idleness ' , Bertrand Russell gives the example of a pin factory. In this pin factory, the workers work eight hours a day, and that produces enough pins for the

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Life (Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 1 999) . Rogers, Cameron, The Magnificent Idler: The Story of Walt Whitman (London: Heinemann, 1 926) . Russell, Bertrand, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (London: Routledge, 2004) . Russell, Bertrand et aI, Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society, ed. Vernon Richards (London: Freedom Press, 1 983) . Sartre, Jean-Paul, Nausea, trans

The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work

by David Frayne · 15 Nov 2015 · 336pp · 83,903 words

as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever. Bertrand Russell – ‘In Praise of Idleness’ (2004c: 15) In his 1972 book Working, Studs Terkel collected transcripts from over a hundred interviews with working Americans, providing an intricate snapshot of

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then leisure may be put before work rather than after work – where it belongs. Henry Ford (cited in Hunnicutt, 1988: 46) In his essay ‘In Praise of Idleness’, Bertrand Russell wasted no time in getting to his point: ‘I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is

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text. 3. I am not referring to Russell’s more heavyweight works as a philosopher here, but to his more accessible contemplative essays – primarily those collected in the volumes In Praise of Idleness (Russell, 2004a) and The Conquest of Happiness (Russell, 2006). My reference to the aesthetic appeal of Russell’s prose in these works is not

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to Freedom, New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Russell, B. (2004a) In Praise of Idleness, Abingdon, New York: Routledge. (Original work published 1935.) Russell, B. (2004b) ‘Education and Discipline’, in B. Russell (ed) In Praise of Idleness, pp 141–147. Abingdon, New York: Routledge. (Original work published 1935.) Russell, B. (2004c) ‘In Praise of Idleness’ in B. Russell (ed) In Praise of Idleness, pp 1–15. Abingdon, New

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, 21, 23 rituals of society, commercialised, 186 role, use of term, 65 role-distancing, 212 routine work, 18 rubbish jobs, 131–42 Russell, Bertrand, 75, 78–9, 80, 111, 225; ‘In Praise of Idleness’, 11, 95–6 Ryle, Martin, 113 S Salecl, Renata, 65, 169 Samantha, a former attorney turned waitress, 120, 138–41, 161

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017

no community where most work is disagreeable can be said to have found a solution of economic probÂ�lems.”38 In his Â�later essay In Praise of Idleness, Russell returns to this theme: “Modern technique has made it posÂ�siÂ�ble for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged

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social. Paris: Le Livre de poche. —Â�—Â�—. 1789/1996. Les Confessions, vol. 1. Paris: Pocket. Russell, Bertrand. 1918/1966. Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism. London: Unwin Books. —Â�—Â�—. 1932/1976. “In Praise of Idleness.” In Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays, 11–25. London: Unwin Paperbacks. Sala-Â�i-Â�Martin, Xavier, and

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp

Society, translated by Chris Turner (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005); André Gorz, Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology, translated by Martin Chalmers (London and New York:Verso, 2012); and Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness (Abingdon: Routledge, 2004). Chapter 18 1. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 169. 2. Tim Wu, The Master Switch: The

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Skull Press, 2011. Rushkoff, Douglas. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2016. Russell, Bertrand. In Praise of Idleness. Abingdon: Routledge, 2004. Russell, Stuart J., and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Third Edition). London: Pearson, 2015. Ryan, Alan. On Politics: A History of Political

The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More - More or Less

by Emrys Westacott · 14 Apr 2016 · 287pp · 80,050 words

. 9. Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy and Other Studies, trans. Charles H. Kerr (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1907), p. 30. 10. Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” in In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (New York: Unwin Books, 1962), p. 12. 11. See Bob Black, “The Abolition of Work,” in The Abolition of Work

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words

lockdowns, also began to think very differently about how we spend time. They began to not want to be quite so busy. The philosopher Bertrand Russell remarked in ‘In Praise of Idleness’ in 1932 that ‘It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days

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), by Solution, by Region, and Segment Forecasts, 2021–2028’, Grand View Research, July 2021, https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/productivity-management-software-market 49. Bertrand Russell, ‘In Praise of Idleness’, In Praise of Idleness and Other Stories (Routledge, 2004 [1935]) 50. Charlie Giattino and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, ‘Are We Working More Than Ever?’, 16 December 2020, Our

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World (Routledge, 2019) Massey, Doreen, ‘A Global Sense of Place’, Marxism Today, June 1991, http://banmarchive.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/91_06_24.pdf Russell, Bertrand, ‘In Praise of Idleness’, In Praise of Idleness and Other Stories (Routledge, 2004 [1935]) Saval, Nikil, Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace (Doubleday, 2014) Saxenian, Annalee: Regional Advantage: Culture and

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and How to Restore Trust in It (Oxford University Press, 2013) Newport, Cal, Deep Work: Rules For Focused Success in a Distracted World (Piatkus, 2016) Russell, Bertrand, ‘In Praise of Idleness’, In Praise of Idleness (Routledge Classics, 2004 [1935]) Shafik, Minouche, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract (Bodley Head, 2021) Sinclair, Upton, The Jungle (Penguin

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind · 14 Jan 2020 · 419pp · 109,241 words

created some of the greatest poetry, literature, and science the world has known.”37 Bertrand Russell, a philosopher and a member of the British upper classes himself, captured his views about his prosperous peers in a famous essay, “In Praise of Idleness.” He argued that “a great deal of harm is being done in the

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in the Future” symposium, 6 February 2018, organized by Robert Skidelsky. 36. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, p. 368. 37. Leontief, “National Perspective,” p. 7. 38. Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 3 and 13. 39. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Dover Thrift

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. Russakovsky, Olga, Jia Deng, Hao Su, et al. “ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge.” International Journal of Computer Vision 115, no. 3 (2015): 211–52. Russell, Bertrand. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. New York: Routledge, 2004. Saez, Emmanuel. “Striking It Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the United States.” Published online at

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Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

by Garson O'Toole · 1 Apr 2017 · 376pp · 91,192 words

evidence to disambiguate the moniker:10 Which brings to mind Meredith’s words: “Time enjoyed wasted, is not wasted time.” In his 1932 essay “In Praise of Idleness,” Bertrand Russell said that work hours per week should be dramatically reduced. This essay does not contain the adage. The following excerpt is included simply to suggest

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33, no. 1 (July 1927). Text is based on a 2003 Kessinger reprint. Verified in a Google Books entry that is no longer viewable. 11. Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (London: Routledge Classics, 2004). Accessed in Google Books, https://goo.gl/tNuqr8. 12. Laurence J. Peter, Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for