In Tune with the World (Pieper)

Author: Josef Pieper

ISBN: 9781890318338

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Subtitle: A Theory of Festivity

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. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under various symbols Pieper exposes the pseudo-festivals, in their harmless and their sinister forms—a nihilistic world which would seek its release not in festivities but in destruction.