Introduction | |
Acknowledgments | |
the Courtier | |
The Idler, No. 1 | p. 2 |
Oblomov | p. 5 |
Cain's Book | p. 6 |
On Being Idle | p. 8 |
Enemies of Promise | p. 16 |
The Idler, No. 31 | p. 16 |
Bartleby the Scrivener | p. 20 |
On Idleness | p. 30 |
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young | p. 31 |
An Apology for Idlers | p. 32 |
The Idler, No. 30 | p. 43 |
Oblomov | p. 47 |
On Presumption | p. 54 |
On Lying Bed | p. 58 |
the Epicurean | |
Be You Drunken! | p. 64 |
Miles: The Autobiography | p. 65 |
Barthes on Barthes | p. 70 |
Against Nature | p. 70 |
Eight Miles High | p. 75 |
A Season in Hell | p. 81 |
The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam | p. 84 |
Labor of Love | p. 91 |
Don Juan | p. 96 |
Dr. Faustus | p. 97 |
The Critic as Artist | p. 97 |
the Monk | |
Wisdom from Lao Tzu | p. 108 |
Swann's Way | p. 108 |
The Importance of Loafing | p. 109 |
Pensees | p. 128 |
Ode on Indolence | p. 133 |
Opium | p. 136 |
Provoked Life | p. 136 |
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell | p. 137 |
On Experience | p. 138 |
Ethics | p. 139 |
Pensees | p. 144 |
Walden | p. 145 |
Poems | p. 150 |
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young | p. 151 |
Forest Notes: Idle Hours | p. 151 |
Damien Hirst Interview, The Idler, No. 10 | p. 156 |
Lost Horizon | p. 156 |
the Unemployed | |
Wages | p. 160 |
Utopia | p. 161 |
The Right to be Lazy | p. 161 |
Who Will Do the Dirty Work? | p. 165 |
The Right to Useful Unemployment | p. 166 |
Interview with Charles Handy, The Idler, No. 3 | p. 170 |
In Praise of Idleness | p. 173 |
Interview with Terence McKenna, The Idler, No. 1 | p. 187 |
The Soul of Man Under Socialism | p. 188 |
Grand National Holiday | p. 190 |
Future Work | p. 204 |
The Gay Science | p. 208 |
The Right to be Lazy, Appendix | p. 210 |
Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology | p. 214 |
Pansies | p. 214 |
About the Editors | p. 217 |
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