Time, Leisure and Well-Being
✍ Jiri Zuzanek
📂 Library
📅 2020
🏛 Routledge
🌐 English
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✦ Synopsis
The significance of work and leisure as elements of our social fabric have puzzled philosophers and social scientists for generations. This ambitious new study considers historical views of work and leisure alongside contemporary survey evidence about time-use and well-being.
Combining sophisticated theoretical analysis with empirical research, the book presents a contrarian argument that defines leisure as a serious and stimulating challenge rather than an unqualified benefit or good.
This is vital reading for anyone with an interest in the concept of time in the social sciences, work-life balance, organisational studies, or the history, philosophy, or sociology of work and leisure.
✦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 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 From the Vale of Tears to the Renaissance
7 St. Augustine: Leisure and Well-Being in the Earthly City and the City of God
8 Thomas Aquinas: Vita Activa or Vita Contemplativa?
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 Josef 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 Today
Intermission: 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
Author Index
Subject Index
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