In Tune With the World
Subtitle: A Theory of Festivity
Contributors: Richard Winston (Translator); Clara Winston (Translator)
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781890318338
Subjects: Customs; Social & political philosophy; Religious; General; Philosophy; Holidays (non religious); Festivals
Description: "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.".

"Pieper 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."--BOOK JACKET.