Name: leisure,the basis of culture & the philosophical act
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Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN: 9781586172565

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leisure,the basis of culture & the philosophical act

Type

Physical Book

Author

Josef Pieper

Publisher

Ignatius Press

Language

English

Pages

145

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN

1586172565

ISBN13

9781586172565

Synopsis "leisure,the basis of culture & the philosophical act"

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. 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. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. 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. 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 silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture -- and ourselves.

Josef Pieper

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Josef Pieper was a German neo-scholastic philosopher. He studied Philosophy, Law, and Sociology at the Universities of Berlin and Münster. He began his teaching career in 1946 at the Essen Higher School of Education. Since 1950, he was a full professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Münster.

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