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Only the Lover Sings

Art and Contemplation

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Product Details

Product Code:
OLSP
Format:
Paperback
ISBN/UPC:
9780898703023
Length:
0.25 (in)
Size (HxW):
7.25 x 4.75 (in)
Pages:
76
Publication date:
October 01, 1990
Weight:
3 oz
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Product Overview

The popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty.

Editorial Reviews

"Joy is more profound than sadness, and our capacity to delight in what is mostly determines what we are. Josef Pieper's welcome guidance on leisure, festivity, and contemplation is the most secure and most exciting way to arrive at, and to delight in, the truth in things. Pieper teaches us through music, sculpture, and poetry to see the luminous beauty that reflects an origin deeper than themselves." 
—James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University

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  • 4
    Interesting book

    Posted by Joseph Tuttle on May 2nd 2019

    An interesting book on Philosophical contemplations of Art, Music, and Leisure.