It could even be said, perhaps, that this very opposition, this threat from the world of total work, is what characterizes the situation of philosophy today more than its own particular content. Philosophy increasingly adopts — necessarily, it seems — the character of the alien, of mere intellectual luxury, of that which seems ever more intolerable and unjustifiable, the more exclusively the demands of the daily world of work take over the world of man.


pp. 65–66 - Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948) - The Philosophical Act


It could even be said, perhaps, that this very opposition, this threat from the world of total work, is what characterizes the situation of...

It could even be said, perhaps, that this very opposition, this threat from the world of total work, is what characterizes the situation of...

It could even be said, perhaps, that this very opposition, this threat from the world of total work, is what characterizes the situation of...

It could even be said, perhaps, that this very opposition, this threat from the world of total work, is what characterizes the situation of...