Recovering the Meaning of Leisure

Recovering the Meaning of Leisure
The School of Athens. Raphael, stitched together from vatican.va,/ Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Roger Kimball
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In a famous passage of his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” the Greek general and historian Thucydides describes the frightful anomie that spread throughout the Hellenic world in the aftermath of the revolution in Corcyra.

Roger Kimball
Roger Kimball
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Roger Kimball is the editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. His most recent book is “Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads.”
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