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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349327697
• ISBN13: 9781349327690
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"