This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, 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'.Revealing how leisure practices have responded to living in a risk society, he shows that 'free' time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.
- ISBN10 6612559039
- ISBN13 9786612559037
- Publish Date 8 March 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sage Publications (CA)
- Format eBook
- Pages 224
- Language English