Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical ACT Pieper JosefPaperback
Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical ACT Pieper JosefPaperback One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis…
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical ACT Pieper JosefPaperback
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world.
Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture.Pieper maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure -- a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God.