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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aSchall, James V.
245 10 $aOn the unseriousness of human affairs :$bteaching, writing, playing, believing, lecturing, philosophizing, singing, dancing /$cby James V. Schall.
260 $aWilmington, Del. :$bISI Books,$c©2001.
300 $axv, 189 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 179-184) and index.
505 00 $tLudere Est Contemplari: On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs --$tOn Teaching and Being Eminently Teachable --$tOn the Fate of Academic Men --$tTruth and the College of Your Choice --$tOn the Education of Young Men and Women --$tContemplata Tradere --$tOn the Mystery of Teachers I Never Met --$tOrder --$tOn Intellectual Poverty --$tOn Wasting the Best Years of Our Lives --$tSelf-Discipline --$tOn the Teaching of Political Philosophy --$tOn the Pleasure of Walking About Derby --$tThe End of All Things --$tA Last Lecture: On Essays and Letters --$tPhilosophy: Why What Is Useless Is the Best Thing about Us.
520 1 $a"To the ears of ceaselessly busy and ambitious modern Westerners, it will come as a shock, and perhaps as an insult, to be told that human affairs are "unserious." But this fundamental truth is exactly what Georgetown professor James Schall has to teach us in this wise and witty book. Following Plato, Schall argues that singing, dancing, playing, contemplating, and other "useless" human activities are not merely forms of escape from more important things - including politics, work, and social activism - but an indication of the freedom in and for which men and women were created." "Echoing philosophers such as Josef Pieper, Schall explains how the modern world has inverted the rational order of human affairs, devaluing the activities of leisure and placing an exaggerated emphasis on utilitarian concerns. Though he does not deny the importance of those necessary and prosaic activities that take up the bulk of our daily lives, Schall puts these pursuits in perspective by asking, what do we do when everything we have to do is done?"--Jacket.
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