Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Josef Pieper

Pieper argues that leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world, and is the foundation of any advanced culture.

Pieper warns that ‘true leisure’ (and not ‘hectic amusements’) is vanishing and that unless we regain it, and the art of silence and insight, our cultures will degrade.

With an introduction by T.S. Eliot.

status	Copy #1 (5896): in
genre	Social Science » Sociology
publisher	Random House
publish date	1952
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