Overview :Warne's original study provides an insightful analysis of the role of contemplation and creation in the thought of Josef Pieper, illustratin... Read More
Overview :A single theme runs through the three essays on St. Thomas gather in this book. It is the theme of mystery or, more exactly, the response of... Read More
Overview :One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps... Read More
Overview :One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communic... Read More
Overview :"The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation".In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Piepe... Read More
Overview :In ordinary conversation, including among the "educated", the word "sin" rarely gets mentioned except when one is trying to be coy or faceti... Read More
Overview :Foreword by Hans Urs von BalthasarNear the end of a long career as one of the most widely read popular Thomistic philosophers of the twentie... Read More
Overview :This elegantly written work introduces the reader to an understanding that leisure is nothing less than "an attitude of mind and a condition... Read More
Overview :This book is neither a deriding of the worldly profane nor a splitting up of reality into a supposedly unholy realm over against one which a... Read More
Overview :This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Fai... Read More
Overview :One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more signifi... Read More
Overview :In The Christian Idea of Man Josef Pieper brings off an extraordinary feat. He acknowledges that whoever introduces the theme of "virtue" an... Read More
Overview :The popular Thomistic philosopher and writer Josef Pieper focuses on the thesis of Plato, which at first sight appears strange and unrealist... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This w... Read More