ISI unveils new book by renowned Georgetown University philosophy professor
ISI Books recently presented its new title, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, Singing, Dancing by James V. Schall. Father Schall is a well-known scholar, who has written many books, including At the Limits of Political Philosophy, A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning, and Schall on Chesterton: Timely Essays on Timeless Paradoxes. Publisher's Weekly calls his latest project, "…an inspirational narrative…", and George Will (as quoted by the Washington Times) says of its author, "'It's hard to keep up with his writing. He's a reproach to us all, he's so prolific.'" In On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs, 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?
Such "useless" human activities as teaching, writing, playing, believing, lecturing, philosophizing, singing, and dancing 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.
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