01870cam a22002777a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000180008802000150010604000130012105000230013410000310015724000290018824501070021726000450032430000210036950400510039052010130044165000130145465000270146765000130149465000160150770000690152315105036OSt20170306105341.0071206s2009    cau           000 0 eng    a  2007942856  a9781586172565  a1586172565  aDLCcDLC 0aBJ1498b.P513 20091 aPieper, Josef,d1904-1997.10aMusse und Kult.lEnglish10aLeisure :bthe basis of culture ; The philosophical act /cJosef Pieper ; translated by Alexander Dru.  aSan Francisco :bIgnatius Press,cc2009.  a143 p. ;c21 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aOne 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. 0aLeisure. 0aGodxWorship and love. 0aCulture. 0aPhilosophy.12aPieper, Josef,d1904-1997.tWas heisst Philosophieren?lEnglish.