Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society Unzipped Books Katherine / Melleby

Katherine / Melleby

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From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes

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Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society Unzipped Books Katherine / MellebyNeither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems. Yet in the nineteenth century, as the imperial ideology of Ottomanism and modern discourses of citizenship spread, so did the understanding of laziness as a social disease that the 'Ottoman nation'