Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical act [Audiobook] download free by Josef Pieper
- Listen audiobook: Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical act
- Author: Josef Pieper
- Release date: 2014/3/9
- Publisher: IGNATIUS PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781586172565
- Rating: 7.84 of 10
- Votes: 755
- Review by: Isaiah Stamps
- Review rating: 9.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 1H48M25S in 256 kbps (28.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-23
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Vorbis, MOD, MPEG4, WAV, FLAC, MP3 (compression CAB, Z, BZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 143
- Includes a PDF summary of 15 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 11M51S (3 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure - a 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. Pieper 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 non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture - and ourselves.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Sociology, Society & Culture: General, Philosophy
- Download servers: FreakShare, Filedropper, FileServe, Uploaded, Dropbox. Compressed in CAB, Z, BZ, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.34 USD
- Dimensions: 137x206x15mm
- Weight: 181g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: San Francisco, United States
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