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Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates
Karl Spracklen
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Description for Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates
Hardcover. This book provides an account of leisure through historical time, exploring the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past, and across different cultures. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; HPS; JFC; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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 purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through historical time, how leisure ... Read more
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 purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through historical time, how leisure ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230280519
SKU
V9780230280519
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About Karl Spracklen
Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has published papers on leisure, sport, tourism and identity and his previous publications include The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure and Sport and Challenges to Racism. New Books in Critical Theory have recently released a podcast about Professor Spracklen's book Whiteness and Leisure . You can listen ... Read more
Reviews for Constructing Leisure: Historical and Philosophical Debates
'Spracklen's two books (both of which apply a Habermasian perspective to the study of leisure) are probably the most important contributions to leisure scholarship so far in the twenty-first century.' - Ken Roberts, Leisure Studies