Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory

by Chris Rojek

Book Overview

This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional centring′ of leisure, on escape′, freedom′ and choice′.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803988133
• ISBN13: 9780803988132
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"