Total Work Newsletter #35: Critiques of Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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Total Work, a term coined by the philosopher Josef Pieper, is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers as work, like a total solar eclipse symbolized in the logo above, comes to obscure all other aspects of life. In these newsletters, I document, reflect upon, and seek to understand this world historical process, one that started at least as far back as 1500 and possibly as the thirteenth century.
Total Work Newsletter #35: Critiques of Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Total Work Newsletter #35: Critiques of…
Total Work Newsletter #35: Critiques of Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture
Total Work, a term coined by the philosopher Josef Pieper, is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers as work, like a total solar eclipse symbolized in the logo above, comes to obscure all other aspects of life. In these newsletters, I document, reflect upon, and seek to understand this world historical process, one that started at least as far back as 1500 and possibly as the thirteenth century.