Yes! Josef Pieper Collection in Pre-pub... but it's only a beginning

Rosie Perera

Josef Pieper Collection (8 vols.)

It's a good start, but I had hoped to see his Leisure: The Basis of Culture, also from Ignatius Press and one of his most popular works, so it surprised me that it's not in the collection.

In fact, none of the top three hits for Pieper on Amazon.com are in this collection, and lots of others are missing, so these should make up the next Pieper collection, at least the ones from Ignatius:

• Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Ignatius Press, 2009)
• Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation (Ignatius, 1990)
• The Four Cardinal Virtues (Univ. of Notre Dame, 1966) - this might be a reprint of the individual titles below: Prudence; Fortitude and Temperance; and Justice
• A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart (Ignatius, 1991)
• Happiness and Contemplation (St. Augustine's Press, 1998)
• Abuse of Language Abuse of Power (Ignatius, 1992)
• In Tune with the World (St. Augustine's Press, 1999)
• On Hope (Ignatius, 2011)
• The Christian Idea of Man (St. Augustine's Press, 2011)
• The Silence of St Thomas (St. Augustine's Press, 1999)
• An Anthology (Ignatius, 2011)
• "Divine Madness": Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism (Ignatius, 1995)
• Death and Immortality (St. Augustine's Press, 1999)
• Scholasticism: Personalities and Problems of Medieval Philosophy (St. Augustine's Press, 2001)
• The Silence of Goethe (St. Augustine's Press, 2009)
• Tradition: Concept and Claim (St. Augustine's Press, 2010)
• The Platonic Myths (St. Augustine's Press, 2011)
• Enthusiasm and Divine Madness (St. Augustine's Press, 1999)
• In Search of the Sacred: Contributions to an Answer (Ignatius, 1991)
• What Is a Feast? (North Waterloo Academic Press, 1990)
• What Does "Academic" Mean?: Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today (St. Augustine's Press, 2015)
• Prudence (Pantheon, 1959)
• Fortitude and Temperance (Pantheon, 1954)
• Justice (Pantheon, 1955)
• Problems of Modern Faith: Essays and Addresses (Franciscan Press, 1986)

MJ. Smith

Thanks for bring the collection to my attention. I suspect we will continue to get more of his works.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/710492#Comment_710492

Not familiar with him, but I will probably get his book on The End of Time when this collection gets broken up. Be interesting to see what he has to say.

Rosie Perera

Rosie Perera said:

It's a good start, but I had hoped to see his Leisure: The Basis of Culture, also from Ignatius Press and one of his most popular works, so it surprised me that it's not in the collection.

Well, what do you know! How timely. A recommendation of Josef Pieper and his Leisure: The Basis of Culture at 11:40-19:09 in this Google Tech Talk which I just happen to be listening to right now ("No Time to Think" by David Levy), following on a recommendation of an article about him in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/article/Youre-Distracted-This/138079