Man and Leisure
Author : Charles Kestner Brightbill
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Charles Kestner Brightbill
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1586172565
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.
Author : Susan Hall
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Pimps
ISBN : 9781576873113
A facsimile edition of the first 1972 edition that followed Silky, a pimp, and his women through an entire year of life on the streets of New York City. Bob Adelman dives headlong onto the world of the original Macks and players - the Big City Pimps - in this in-depth photographic exploration of the underworld figures that populated the streets of New York City. Armed with only a camera Adelman entered the lives of Silky and his women. This facsimile edition re-introduces this classic of the times and makes available, once more, this compelling and hugely popular book.
Author : Charles Kestner Brightbill
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release :
Category : Leisure
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Trocchi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802133144
This is the journal of Joe Necchi, a junkie living on a barge that plies the rivers and bays of New York. Joe's world is the half-world of drugs and addicts -- the world of furtive fixes in sordid Harlem apartments, of police pursuits down deserted subway stations. Junk for Necchi, however, is a tool, freely chosen and fully justified; he is Cain, the malcontent, the profligate, the rebel who lives by no one's rules but his own. Like DeQuincey and Baudelaire before him, Trocchi's muse was drugs. But unlike his literary predecessors, in his roman a clef, Trocchi never romanticizes the source of his inspiration. If the experience of heroin, of the "fix," is central to Cain's Book, both its destructive force and the possibilities for creativity it creates are recognized and accepted without apology. "Cain's Book is the classic late-1950s account of heroin addiction. . . . An un-self-forgiving existentialism, rendered with writerly exactness and muscularity, set this novel apart from all others of the genre." -- William S. Burroughs
Author : N Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004666435
Author : Josef Pieper
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1681492911
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act. Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure - a 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. Pieper 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 non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture - and ourselves.
Author : Charles Kestner BRIGHTBILL
Publisher :
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 1963
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Trocchi
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802189423
A compelling existential thriller by the Beat-era writer: “Everyone should read Young Adam” (The Times Literary Supplement). Young Adam tells the story of Joe, a drifter who works on a barge traveling the Clyde River between Glasgow and Edinburgh. As the novel opens, Joe finds the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Was it an accident, a suicide, or murder? As the police investigate and arrest a suspect, it becomes clear that Joe knows far more than he’s telling. Originally published in 1954, Young Adam was made into a film starring Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton, and is now reissued with an introduction by PEN finalist and literary critic David L. Ulin. This is a psychologically suspenseful novel and an absorbing portrait of a haunted man, from an iconoclastic Beat writer praised by the New Yorker for “prose that is always clean and sharp and often ferociously alive with poetry” and called “the most brilliant man I ever met” by Allen Ginsberg. “Trocchi may be the greatest unknown writer in the world.” —The Bloomsbury Review
Author : Nels Anderson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004038561
Monograph on theoretical and philosophical concepts of employment and leisure - covers the evolution of work ethics in the USA and the UK, etc. References.