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

Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York: Mentor-Omega, 1963). Next week we will discuss Pieper's “The Philosophical Act”. And, I admit, I do not recall all the specifics of his metaphysical case. The Saint Socrates Society reading group is underway. I read it as an 18 year-old in 1961. But that's not how Christianity understands leisure. In his book, “Leisure: The Basis of Culture,” the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper called leisure a “condition of the soul.” It's not the same thing as inactivity or quiet. [3] Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life, (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), p. Sixty years ago, Josef Pieper published a remarkable book titled “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”. We discussed Pieper's Leisure as the Basis of Culture at our first meeting. 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.