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“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 astonishing essays by one of the most important philosophers of our time contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Josef Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of “work” as he predicts its destructive consequences.
“[Pieper] has subjects involved in everyone’s life; he has theses that are so counter to the prevailing trends as to be sensational; and he has a style that is memorable clear and direst.” – Chicago Tribune
Josef Pieper was born in 1904. He was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology and has been a member of the faculty at the University of Münster. Dr Pieper has lectured widely at American universities, and in 1962 traveled to India for a lecture tour.
Paperback, 127 pages. A much sought after but hard to find book in good to very good preloved condition (with the exception of a crease to the front cover, a name and date neatly written on the first page and colour change to pages consistent with a book published in 1963).