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Pieper’s first essay in this short book titled Work, Spare Time, and Leisure. This first appeared as a keynote address for the opening of an art exhibition. He is concerned that a society organized entirely around work risks forgetting what work is ultimately for. Leisure restores our capacity to recognize that some of the highest human goods cannot be measured by productivity, utility, or achievement.