Elanna’s Reviews > Leisure: The Basis of Culture: Including the Philosophical Act > Status Update

For such a famous thinker, to mistake the meaning of Labour Day as a celebration of Total Work sounds like sheer bad faith (pun intended).
Ok, I started reading this with an open mind, but evidently I am too much of a heathen, or he was too much of a reactionary... (hello, 1933 essay where he tried to link National-Socialist politics and the Church's latest & greatest Encyclica...

I like his deep poetic insight into the value of human beings other than their usefulness to the production machine, but the logic gets quite fuzzy when linking dignity to faith and the spiritual value of leisure to worship. His arguments feel like he bult a careful construction until now and then... ooops there are pillars missing all over this storey.

Finished Leisure the Basis of Culture. Well, it is a powerful indictment of modern totalitarian utilitarianism, but he used some of the worst fuzzy logic I have ever met when trying to tie it all up nicely into the role of worship as the sole vehicle of celebration of human dignity.