Leisure: The Basis of Culture

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Title

Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Description

Ravaged by war and the collapse of previous norms, peacetime Germans struggled to understand a world that was turning West and embracing industry. Many believed consumerism and a bourgeois lifestyle could offer a path to national progress. Philosopher Josef Pieper believed otherwise, insisting that we work so as to have the restful freedom to dream, create, and connect spiritually with the world. Pieper's elegant answer to alienation then has so much to say in an era when technology is again promising liberation - but somehow, will end up again leaving us doing to dishes while it writes ever cheaper poetry.

Creator

Josef Pieper

Source

https://ignatius.com/leisure-lbcp/

Publisher

St. Augustine's Press, Ignatius Press

Date

1948

Contributor

Matthew C. from North Augusta, SC