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001 2007942856
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008 071206s2009 cau 000 0 eng
010 $a 2007942856
040 $aDLC$cDLC
020 $a9781586172565
020 $a1586172565
050 0 $aBJ1498$b.P513 2009
100 1 $aPieper, Josef,$d1904-1997.
240 10 $aMusse und Kult.$lEnglish
245 10 $aLeisure :$bthe basis of culture ; The philosophical act /$cJosef Pieper ; translated by Alexander Dru.
260 $aSan Francisco :$bIgnatius Press,$cc2009.
300 $a143 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $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.
650 0 $aLeisure.
650 0 $aGod$xWorship and love.
650 0 $aCulture.
650 0 $aPhilosophy.
700 12 $aPieper, Josef,$d1904-1997.$tWas heisst Philosophieren?$lEnglish.