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2025-12-30 10:24:25 ET

The Right to Idleness

The literature on idleness includes philosophical essays that define it as time devoted to self-improvement and life stories that extol its value as a moment of reflection, creativity, and well-being amid the chaos of modern life. From An Apology for Idlers by Robert Louis Stevenson (1877) and Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome Kaplka Jerome (1886) to In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell (1935) and How to Be Idle , How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson (2006), the last two centuries have seen a succession of stimulating readings on this state of mind....

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