{"product_id":"9780415550673-an-experiment-in-leisure","title":"An Experiment in Leisure","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by Maud Ellmann, this book further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives and remains a great adventure in thinking and living. \u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eWhat is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in 1936 as a companion piece to \u003cem\u003eA Life of One’s Own\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e An Experiment in Leisure\u003c\/em\u003e further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation into how we lead our lives. Instead of drawing on her daily diary, she turns to memory images – images not only from her own life but also from books, mythology, travel and religion that seem to point to a suspension of ordinary, everyday awareness. From this condition of emptiness springs an increasing imaginative appreciation both of being alive and of the world we live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by Maud Ellmann, \u003cem\u003eAn Experiment in Leisure\u003c\/em\u003e remains a great adventure in thinking and living and will be essential reading for all those from a literary, an artistic, a historical, an educational or a psychoanalytic\/psychotherapeutic background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41081262047329,"sku":"9780415550673","price":38.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/688015fc892088c5fa47ac16f29b091e.jpg?v=1700294415","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780415550673-an-experiment-in-leisure","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}