Name: In Tune With The World
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Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN: 9781890318338

Type

Physical Book

Author

Josef Pieper

Publisher

St. Augustine's Press

Language

English

Pages

104

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.15 kg.

ISBN

1890318337

ISBN13

9781890318338

Synopsis "In Tune With The World "

In this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking - that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under various symbolsPieper exposes the pseudo-festivals, in their harmless and their sinister forms: traditional feasts contaminated by commercialism; artificial holidays created in the interest of merchandisers; holidays by coercion, decreed by dictators the world over; festivals as military demonstrations; holidays empty of significance. And lastly we are given the apocalyptic vision of a nihilistic world which would seek its release not in festivities but in destruction.Formulated with Pieper's customary clarity and elegance, enhanced by brilliantly chosen quotations, this is an illuminating contribution to the understanding of traditional and contemporary experience.

Josef Pieper

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Josef Pieper was a German neo-scholastic philosopher. He studied Philosophy, Law, and Sociology at the Universities of Berlin and Münster. He began his teaching career in 1946 at the Essen Higher School of Education. Since 1950, he was a full professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Münster.

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