Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates

by Karl Spracklen

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023028051X
• ISBN13: 9780230280519
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"