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- 2007942856 abstract "One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. 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. He 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 nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.".
- 2007942856 alternative "Musse und Kult. English".
- 2007942856 contributor B11069911.
- 2007942856 contributor B11069912.
- 2007942856 created "c2009.".
- 2007942856 date "2009".
- 2007942856 date "c2009.".
- 2007942856 dateCopyrighted "c2009.".
- 2007942856 description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- 2007942856 description "One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. 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. He 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 nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.".
- 2007942856 extent "143 p. ;".
- 2007942856 identifier "1586172565".
- 2007942856 identifier "9781586172565".
- 2007942856 issued "2009".
- 2007942856 issued "c2009.".
- 2007942856 language "eng".
- 2007942856 publisher "San Francisco : Ignatius Press,".
- 2007942856 subject "BJ1498 .P513 2009".
- 2007942856 subject "Culture.".
- 2007942856 subject "God Worship and love.".
- 2007942856 subject "Leisure.".
- 2007942856 subject "Philosophy.".
- 2007942856 title "Leisure : the basis of culture ; The philosophical act / Josef Pieper ; translated by Alexander Dru.".
- 2007942856 title "Musse und Kult. English".
- 2007942856 type "text".