LEADER 00772nam0-22002771i-450 001 990004873450403321 005 20230605164533.0 035 $a000487345 035 $aFED01000487345 035 $a(Aleph)000487345FED01 100 $a19990530g19709999km-y0itay50------ba 101 0 $aspa 102 $aES 105 $ay-------001yy 200 1 $a<>lenguage artistico$fValeriano Bozal Fernāndez 210 $as.l.$cPeninsula$d1970 215 $a307 p.$d21 cm 225 1 $aHistoria, ciencia, sociedad$v66 700 1$aValeriano Bozal,$bFernāndez$0394138 801 0$aIT$bUNINA$gRICA$2UNIMARC 901 $aBK 912 $a990004873450403321 952 $aPG 575$bFil. Mod. 24272$fFLFBC 959 $aFLFBC 996 $aLenguage artistico$93366164 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03921nam 22004813 450 001 9910156210203321 005 20230808201000.0 010 $a9781621381273 010 $a1621381277 035 $a(CKB)3710000000985281 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7076693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7076693 035 $a(OCoLC)968987900 035 $a(Perlego)3712279 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32264946 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32264946 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000985281 100 $a20220825d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAcedia and Its Discontents $eMetaphysical Boredom in an Empire of Desire 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aChicago :$cAngelico Press,$d2016. 210 4$dŠ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (98 pages) 311 08$a9781621381266 311 08$a1621381269 327 $aIntro -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface The Empire of Desire -- Introduction A Lust to Annihilate: The Terrible Covenant of Sloth -- Part I: The Weighty Gift of Responsibility -- 1 From the Dirt, for the Dirt -- 2 The Great Economy: Three Tests of Good Work -- Part II: The Unbearable Weightiness of Being -- 3 Hating Being: Sloth, Boredom, Nihilism -- 4 Bleaching Things -- Part III: Lovely Resistance -- 5 Sabbath Work, Sabbath Feasting -- 6 Small is Beautiful -- Conclusion A Cold Response to Life -- Bibliography -- Endnotes -- About the Book -- About the Author. 330 8 $aWhile the term acedia may be unfamiliar, the vice, usually translated as sloth, is all too common. Sloth is not mere laziness, however, but a disgust with reality, a loathing of our call to be friends with God, and a spiteful hatred of place and life itself. As described by Josef Pieper, the slothful person does not "want to be as God wants him to be, and that ultimately means he does not wish to be what he really, fundamentally is." Sloth is a hellish despair.Our own culture is deeply infected, choosing a destructive freedom rather than the good work for which God created us. Acedia and Its Discontents resists despair, calling us to reconfigure our imaginations and practices in deep love of the life and work given by God. By feasting, keeping sabbath, and working well, we learn to see the world as enchanting, beautiful, and good--just as God sees it."In the arid wasteland that is academic writing, amid the wider desert that is modern secular thought, R. J. Snell's book on acedia is an oasis of flowers and fruit and fresh water. Professor Snell reminds us that man must never be made subordinate to work, nor even to the empty 'vacations' that are but interruptions in work. Like his great predecessors Josef Pieper, Jacques Maritain, Max Picard, Romano Guardini, and Pope John Paul II, he diagnoses the besetting disease of our time--spiritual torpor--and prescribes as a remedy the joyful celebration of the Sabbath. A stupendous book, filled with the happiness of wonder."--ANTHONY ESOLEN, "A whole book about just one vice, 'sloth'? Ah, but this book is different. It exposes a deeply hidden and deeply destructive fundamental attitude that pervades our culture, an attitude that comes not just from the flesh (laziness) or from the world (world-weariness, cynicism), but from the Devil: disgust and rebellion toward Being itself, natural as well as supernatural. This is the 'noonday devil' that great saints have labelled 'sloth.' Know your enemy. Read this book!"--PETER KREEFT 606 $aChristian life--Catholic authors 615 0$aChristian life--Catholic authors. 676 $a248 700 $aSnell$b R. J$01253343 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910156210203321 996 $aAcedia and Its Discontents$92905869 997 $aUNINA