Constructing leisure [electronic resource] : historical and philosophical debates / Karl Spracklen.
Spracklen, Karl.
2011
GV14 .S63 2011eb
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Title Constructing leisure [electronic resource] : historical and philosophical debates / Karl Spracklen.
Author Spracklen, Karl.
ISBN 9780230348721 (electronic book)
9780230280519
Imprint Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (224 p.)
Call Number GV14 .S63 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 790.1
Summary This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history of leisure on its own 6 in fact, it is impossible without engaging in the debate about what counts as leisure (in the present and in the past). Writing a history of leisure, then, entails writing a philosophy of leisure: and any history needs to be a philosophical history as well. That is the purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through historical time, how leisure was constructed and understood by historical actors, how communicative reason and free will interacted with instrumentality at different times, how historians have reconstructed past leisure through historiography, and finally, how writers have perceived the meaning and purpose of leisure in alternative histories. Providing a sweeping overview of the field, Karl Spracklen charts how the concept of leisure was understood in Ancient history, through to modern times, and looks at leisure in different societies and cultures including Byzantium and Asian civilizations, as well as looking at leisure and Islam. Spracklen concludes with a chapter on future histories of leisure.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
Philosophy of Leisure
Leisure and Human Nature
Leisure in Classical History
Leisure, Islam and Byzantium
Leisure in the Middle Ages
Leisure in Japan, China and India
Early Modern Leisure
Leisure in Modernity
Leisure in Historiography
Future Histories of Leisure
Conclusions
References
Index

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