Description: Title: Leisure: The Basis of Culture Author: Pieper, Josef Publisher: Ignatius Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 145 Dimensions: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.60d Product Weight: 0.4 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781586172565 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Leisure : the Basis of Culture and the Philosophical Act
Number of Pages: 145 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: General, History & Surveys / Modern, Criticism, Christian Life / Social Issues, Cults
Publication Year: 2007
Genre: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Author: A24, Josef Pieper, T.S. Eliot
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
