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Decentring Leisure
Rethinking Leisure Theory

  • Chris Rojek - City, University of London, UK, City University London, UK
March 1995 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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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.

 
Introduction
Capitalism/Modernity/Postmodernity

 
 
PART ONE: CAPITALISM AND LEISURE
 
Capitalism
Production

 
 
Capitalism
Reproduction

 
 
PART TWO: MODERNITY AND LEISURE
 
Modernity 1
The Roots of Order

 
 
Mechanisms of Regulation
 
Modernity 2
The Disorder of Things

 
 
The Phenomenology of Leisure
 
PART THREE: POSTMODERNISM AND LEISURE
 
Postmodernity and Postmodernism
 
Postmodern Leisure
 
Conclusion
Homo Faber/Homo Ludens

 

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