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“"Leisure: The Basis of Culture" is a must-read. Pieper warns against the danger of the totalitarian claim of the workaday world: work dominates the world of man, and man as a result does not anymore have time to think about the more "transcendent" and important things of life - contemplation of God. Work, according to Pieper, is not bad in itself; it becomes bad only when it puts its totalitarian claim on the human world. He also warns against the pseudo kinds of leisure such as resting in order for us to work: we refresh from work in order to be refreshed for work. I read this to prepare myself for my retreat, and it's very appropriate indeed!”
varssunio wrote this review Monday, October 22 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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