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Author:   Jiri Zuzanek (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367522834

ISBN 10:   0367522837
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   29 April 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction, Part 1: Leisure, work and well-being: Through a historical lens, 1. Leisure that never existed before: A historical perspective, 2. Was Plato a friend or a foe of leisure?, 3 Aristotle: Philosopher of leisure and happiness, 4. Leisure in Ancient Rome: Otium and Panem et Circenses, 5. Seneca: Philosopher of tranquillity and sadness, 6. St. Augustine: Leisure and happiness in the Earthly City and the City of God, 7. Thomas Aquinas: Vita activa or vita contemplativa?, 8. From the Vale of tears to the Renaissance, 9. Work and leisure in Thomas More’s Utopia, 10. Montaigne’s Essays and Pascal’s Pensées: Of diversion and happiness, 11. Enlightenment’s vision of work, leisure and the arts, 12. Adam Smith: Capitalism with a human face?, 13. The 19th century…Was there ever a Golden Age?, 14. Alexis de Tocqueville: Why are Americans restless amidst prosperity?, 15. Karl Marx: Between the ‘realm of freedom’ and ‘material necessity’, 16. Emile Durkheim: Of labour, leisure, and anomie, 17. Max Weber: Of work ethic, leisure, and disenchantment, 18. Thorstein Veblen: From the ethics of work to conspicuous consumption, 19. The 20th century: farewell to the ""belle époque"", 20. Johan Huizinga: Sub specie ludi, 21. Pitirim Sorokin: At the crossroad of Ideational and Sensate cultures, 22. Joseph Pieper: Apology for vita contemplativa, 23. Hannah Arendt: Of ‘human condition’, 24. From the Middletown and Middletown in Transition to The Lonely Crowd, 25. Leisure research yesterday and today: Quo Vadis?, Part II: Leisure, work and well-being: Changing the diopter, 26. What happened to the society of leisure? Two scenarios, 27. Work-leisure relationship: The ‘long arm of work’?, 28. Leisure and social prestige: Keeping up with the Joneses?, 29. The pros and cons of the ‘democratization of culture’, 30. Of happiness, leisure and riches, Conclusion"

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Jiri Zuzanek is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and formerly held appointments in the University of Lund, Sweden, Queen’s University, New York, and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He was also Research Director of UNESCO European Centre for Leisure and Education, Prague. He has researched and written extensively on the sociology of leisure and popular culture and time-use, time pressure, stress and health. He is author of: Social Research and Cultural Policy (1979); Work and Leisure in the Soviet Union (1980); World Leisure Participation (co-editor, 1996); The Effects of Time Use and Time Pressure on Child-Parent Relationships (2000); and Free Time and Leisure Participation: International Perspectives (co-editor, 2005).

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