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In Tune with the World: a Theory of Festivity by from the German by Richard and Clara Winston is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is In Tune with the World: a Theory of Festivity about?

"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.

Author

from the German by Richard and Clara Winston

Publisher

Franciscan Herald Press

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819904645

Subjects

Folklore, Anthropology, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24