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
Modern life is remarkably good at multiplying choices. We can change jobs, cities, relationships, political allegiances, and even public identities
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