Sie sind bereits eingeloggt. Klicken Sie auf 2. tolino select Abo, um fortzufahren.
Bitte loggen Sie sich zunächst in Ihr Kundenkonto ein oder registrieren Sie sich bei bücher.de, um das eBook-Abo tolino select nutzen zu können.
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,…mehr
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.
Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.
Die Herstellerinformationen sind derzeit nicht verfügbar.
Autorenporträt
Jiri Zuzanek is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and formerly held appointments in the University of Lund, Sweden, Queen's University, New York, and the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He was also Research Director of UNESCO European Centre for Leisure and Education, Prague. He has researched and written extensively on the sociology of leisure and popular culture and time-use, time pressure, stress and health. He is author of: Social Research and Cultural Policy (1979); Work and Leisure in the Soviet Union (1980); World Leisure Participation (co-editor, 1996); The Effects of Time Use and Time Pressure on Child-Parent Relationships (2000); and Free Time and Leisure Participation: International Perspectives (co-editor, 2005).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part 1: 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. St. Augustine: Leisure and happiness in the Earthly City and the City of God 7. Thomas Aquinas: Vita activa or vita contemplativa? 8. From the Vale of tears to the Renaissance 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. Joseph 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: 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
Introduction, Part 1: 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. St. Augustine: Leisure and happiness in the Earthly City and the City of God, 7. Thomas Aquinas: Vita activa or vita contemplativa?, 8. From the Vale of tears to the Renaissance, 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. Joseph 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: 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
Introduction Part 1: 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. St. Augustine: Leisure and happiness in the Earthly City and the City of God 7. Thomas Aquinas: Vita activa or vita contemplativa? 8. From the Vale of tears to the Renaissance 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. Joseph 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: 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
Introduction, Part 1: 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. St. Augustine: Leisure and happiness in the Earthly City and the City of God, 7. Thomas Aquinas: Vita activa or vita contemplativa?, 8. From the Vale of tears to the Renaissance, 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. Joseph 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: 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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
