Leisure : its rise, fall, and potential rebirth / Jacob T. Snyder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Jacob T., 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leisure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Methodology

Plan of Book

Place in Scholarship

Chapter 1 Classical Leisure as a "Way of Being"

Leisure as a Precondition

Leisure as a "Way of Being"

Equipment and Virtue for Leisure

Leisure as an End

Leisure and Music

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Locke on the Necessity of Labor for Happiness

Labor as a Curse

Self-Authorship and Happiness

Work and Self-Authorship

Utility and Self-Authorship

Frederick Douglass and Freedom as Industry

Chapter 3 Vocation and the Radicalization of Labor

Defining Vocation

Personality and Vocation's Radicalization of Locke

Vocation: Synthesis of Leisure and Labor?

Moving beyond Vocation

Chapter 4 Rousseau's Harmless and Happy Idleness

Solitude

Calming of Reason

The Expansion of Being

How Is Idleness Morally Defensible?

Chapter 5 Free Time

Contemporary Free Time: From Television to Aestheticism

Limitations of Hobbies

The Art of Democracy

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438498775

1438498772

OCLC:

1446798869