Decentring Leisure
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Decentring Leisure

Rethinking Leisure Theory

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Decentring Leisure

Rethinking Leisure Theory

About this book

This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional ?centring? of leisure, on ?escape?, ?freedom? and ?choice?.

Revealing how leisure practices have responded to living in a risk society, he shows that ?free? time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. INTRODUCTION: Capitalism/Modernity/Postmodernity
  5. PART 1: Capitalism and Leisure
  6. 1 - Capitalism: Production
  7. 2 - Capitalism: Reproduction
  8. PART 2: Modernity and Leisure
  9. 3 - Modernity 1: The Roots of Order
  10. 4 - Mechanism of Regulation
  11. 5 - Modernity 2: the Disorder of Things
  12. 6 - The Phenomenology of Leisure
  13. PART 3: Postmodernism and Leisure
  14. 7 - Postmodernity and Postmodernism
  15. 8 - Postmodern Leisure
  16. 9: Conclusion: Homo Faber/Homo Ludens
  17. Notes
  18. References
  19. Author Index
  20. Subject Index