Eugène Marsan, In Praise of Laziness
7 Counterintuitive Lessons from Eugène Marsan’s In Praise of Laziness We are usually taught to treat laziness as a defect
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Ovid, The Art of Love
7 Surprisingly Modern Ideas About Desire in Ovid’s The Art of Love We like to imagine desire as one of
Abel Hermant, The Bourgeois
7 Surprisingly Modern Ideas in Abel Hermant’s The Bourgeois Few social types have been mocked as relentlessly as the bourgeois.
Turgot, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth.
7 Economic Ideas Turgot Saw Coming Before the Modern Economy Had a Name Economics often feels like the study of
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Robert Walser, Prose Pieces
7 Strange Lessons from Robert Walser About Failure, Attention, and the Art of Being Small Literature usually asks us to
Robert Walser, The Walk
7 Radical Ideas Hidden Inside Robert Walser’s The Walk A man leaves his room, puts on his hat, walks downstairs,
Maurice Joly, The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu
7 Disturbingly Modern Ideas About Power in Maurice Joly’s Dialogue in Hell The old-fashioned tyrant is easy to recognize. He
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Eugène Marsan, In Praise of Laziness
7 Surprising Lessons from Eugène Marsan’s In Praise of Laziness We tend to divide time into two moral categories: productive
Georg Simmel, On Social Differentiation
7 Unsettling Ideas from Georg Simmel That Explain Why Modern Freedom Feels So Complicated We tend to imagine individuality as
Simone Weil, The Need for Roots
7 Unsettling Lessons from Simone Weil About What Human Beings Really Need Modern life is remarkably good at multiplying choices.
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