From the publisher : Josef 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 ourselve Memoria Press product: https://www.memoriapress.com/curriculum/mcp/leisure-the-basis-of-culture/