“A time like the present seems, of all times, not to be a time to speak of ‘leisure.’”
Just three years after the second world war, German philosopher Josef Pieper opened his essay, Leisure: the Basis of Culture, well-aware that leisure would not seem urgent to most during Germany’s existential post-war reconstruction.
But this painful time of rebuilding, Pieper argued, offered a rare chance for society to incorporate the “whole of its existence”—the joy of spending time with family, producing and consuming art, exercising, communing with nature—instead of just focusing on maximizin...
The Orthopedics Industry 
