In praise of idleness and other essays
By: Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by Anthony Gottlieb ; with an introduction by Howard Woodhouse.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Social problems.
Notes: First published in Routledge Classics, 2004.
Originally published: London : George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: In praise of idleness; title: "Useless" knowledge; title: Architecture and social questions; title: The modern Midas; title: The ancestry of fascism; title: Scylla and Charybdis, or, communism and fascism; title: The case for socialism; title: Western civilization; title: On youthful cynicism; title: Modern homogeneity; title: Men versus insects; title: Education and discipline; title: Stoicism and mental health; title: On comets; title: What is the soul?