Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Review
“Pieper’s message for us is plain…. The idolatry of the machine, the worship of mindless know-how, the infantile cult of youth and the common mind-all this points to our peculiar leadership in the drift toward the slave society…. Pieper’s profound insights are impressive and even formidable.” — New York Times Book Review

“These two short essays by a contemporary German philosopher go a long way towards a lucid explanation of the present crisis in civilisation.…
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