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Author Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Title In praise of idleness and other essays / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by Anthony Gottlieb ; with an introduction by Howard Woodhouse.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
1935.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  301 RUSELL, BERTRAND    DUE 05-15-24
Description xxvi, 171 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Routledge classics
Routledge classics.
Note First published in Routledge Classics, 2004.
Originally published: London : George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
Includes index.
Contents In praise of idleness -- "Useless" knowledge -- Architecture and social questions -- The modern Midas -- The ancestry of fascism -- Scylla and Charybdis, or, communism and fascism -- The case for socialism -- Western civilization -- On youthful cynicism -- Modern homogeneity -- Men versus insects -- Education and discipline -- Stoicism and mental health -- On comets -- What is the soul?
Subject Social problems.
ISBN 0415325064 paperback
Standard No. 99807819580
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