Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press

Leisure: The Basis of Culture and the Philosophical Act. I'll post just a couple or three more times on the Kraut anthology (The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics). You need to read "Leisure the Basis of Culture" by Joseph Pieper. Leisure: The Basis of Culture Chapter 1. Andrew caught my attention in his own reference to the estimable German Catholic philosopher, Josef Pieper -- author of such works as Leisure the Basis of Culture and In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity. Without a doubt, this is going to be an incredible book club experience. Leisure the Basis of Aristotelian Culture. By Josef Pieper – Ignatius Press (2009) – Paperback – 143 pages – ISBN 1586172565. His Leisure: the Basis of Culture is a veritable battle-cry for young, intelligent Catholics who like to talk about what's wrong with the world but don't like falling into soul-crushing despair. It's time to move on to something else. A quote from Joseph Pieper's Leisure the Basis of Culture (p11-12) was helpful to me here: 'The medievals distinguished between the intellect as ratio and the intellect as intellectus. PERSPECTIVE Connoisseur of Chaos by Thomas Fleming Worth doing badly. VIEWS Liberality, the Basis of Culture by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem.