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Leisure (Paperback)
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Leisure (Paperback)
Series: Key Ideas
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No single introductory book has until now captured the range of
thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning
with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological
definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests
that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to
be resolved. After analyzing the rise and fall of modern leisure
patterns, the emphasis shifts from the historical to the
sociological and the author identifies and critically discusses the
key modernist and postmodernist perspectives. Drawing on the idea
that leisure studies is a 'language game', Tony Blackshaw
subsequently offers his own original theory of liquid leisure which
asks some key questions about the present and the future of leisure
in people's lives, as well as what implications it has for
individuals' abilities to embrace the opportunity for an authentic
existence that is both magical and moral. Leisure is an essential
purchase for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers
and academics in the fields of Sociology of Leisure, Sports and
Leisure Studies, and Popular Culture.
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