Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”
Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)
Roger Kimball: “Leszek Kolakowski and the Anatomy of Totalitarianism”
Roger Kimball summarizes the diagnosis of modernity’s ailments offered by philosopher Leszek Kolakowski. (35 minutes)