In Defense of Idleness: Laziness and Freedom in Rousseau’s Reveries

• In Event: Theodicy and Freedom in French Theory

Brief Overview

A study of Rousseau’s Reveries that seeks to explain the specific form of freedom found in idleness, and the claim that the solitary dreamer achieves uselessness without being pernicious to others.

Author

• Jacob T. Snyder, Dalton State College