02105cam a22003257a 4500 15105036 OSt 20170306105341.0 071206s2009 cau 000 0 eng 2007942856 9781586172565 1586172565 DLC DLC BJ1498 .P513 2009 Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997. Musse und Kult. English Leisure : the basis of culture ; The philosophical act / Josef Pieper ; translated by Alexander Dru. San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2009. 143 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Leisure. God Worship and love. Culture. Philosophy. Pieper, Josef, 1904-1997. Was heisst Philosophieren? English. 7 cbc origres 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 255996 255995 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC 40404 40404 GEN 2017-03-06 0 BJ1498 .P513 2009 201615188 2017-03-06 2017-03-06 BK