Titlebook: Constructing Leisure; Historical and Philo Karl Spracklen Book 2011 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011

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Early Modern Leisure,sociated with the growth of agency in the public sphere (Burke, 1999). The first section of this chapter will explore the wider context of the rise of humanism as a reaction to the power of the Catholic Church. I will argue that competing notions of freedom, culture and morality challenged medieval

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Leisure in Modernity,ial age and the age of modernity (Borsay, 2005). In the first section of the chapter, I will use the well-known story of Benjamin Franklin using a kite in experiments on the effects of electrical discharges to introduce two related concepts: the leisured class of the Enlightenment, and the leisure a

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Future Histories of Leisure,ore the way in which postmodernism and postmodernity have opened up opportunities for communicative discourse over the meaning and purpose of leisure: particularly through the rise of the Internet and popular music. However, the commodification of sport and the malign influence of transnational corp

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Conclusions, our freedom to choose our leisure has always been constrained. In this final chapter, I need to summarize the endeavour of the previous ten chapters, return to the histories of leisure discussed in some of the other chapters, and identify future research projects within the framework of philosophic

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Urban Climates in Latin Americaand beyond to the lost Roman Empire of the West, where his soldiers retook the provinces of Africa, Italy and part of Spain. For a moment, with the defeat of the Italian Goths, it looked as if the Roman Empire was to be reunited and refreshed by the success of Justinian’s generals.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97013-4e reflection: hence, it becomes possible to distinguish hierarchies of good and bad leisure, with rational discourse and ritual sports becoming the most noble. For the Epicureans, anything that helped fulfil the need for happiness and satiation counted as good leisure: so for them, the best leisure

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