@article{438489,
      recid = {438489},
      author = {Spracklen, Karl.},
      title = {Constructing leisure historical and philosophical debates  / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;},
      pages = {1 online resource (224 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438489},
}