Author: SailorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Solace of Leisure Hours; Or, Essays of Poesy
Author: SailorThe solace of leisure hours; or, Essays of poesy, by a sailor (R. Peter).
Author: Robert PeterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
The Solace of Leisure Hours; Or Essays of Poesy. By a Sailor (R. Peter).
Author: Robert PETER (Sailor.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Employment of Leisure Hours: an Essay
Author: Light Science for Leisure Hours...Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &c
Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Leisure
Author: Josef PieperPublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1586172565
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans. He points out that religion can be born only in leisure. Leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. He maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our cultureCand ourselves. These astonishing essays contradict all our pragmatic and puritanical conceptions about labor and leisure; Joseph Pieper demolishes the twentieth-century cult of Awork as he predicts its destructive consequences.
In praise of idleness
Author: Bertrand RussellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Verzamelde opstellen van de Engelse wijsgeer (1872-1970)
Light Science for Leisure Hours. Second Series. Familiar Essays on Scientific Subjects, Natural Phenomena, &c. With a Sketch of the Life of Mary Somerville
Author: Richard Anthony ProctorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385419417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Essays on Leisure
Author: Max KaplanPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634172
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A collection of 12 previously published or delivered essays by well- known sociologist, Kaplan. Includes an autobiographical sketch; his views on leisure as it relates to aging, ethics, tourism, the arts, outdoor recreation; and a review of the current scholarship. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Essays from the Nick of Time
Author: Mark SloukaPublisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555970141
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A new collection of prophetic essays from one of the sharpest practitioners of the form Mark Slouka writes from a particular vantage point, one invoked by Thoreau, who wished "to improve the nick of time . . . to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future." At this bewildering convergence, Slouka asks us to consider what it means to be human and what we must revive, or reject, in order to retain our humanity in the modern world. Collected over fifteen years, these essays include fascinating explorations of the relationship between memory and history and the nature of "tragedy" in a media-driven culture; meditations on the transcendent "wisdom" of the natural world and the role of silence in an age of noise; and arguments in defense of the political value of leisure time and the importance of the humanities in an age defined by the language of science and industry. Written in Slouka's supple and unerring prose, celebratory, critical, and passionate, Essays from the Nick of Time reawakens us to the moment and place in which we find ourselves, caught between the fading presence of the past and the neon lure of the future.