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

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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2ore 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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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 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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Philosophy of Leisure, and Stoics, as well as more contemporary work from Huizinga (2003[1944]), Morgan (1976), Suits (2005) and Holowchak (2007), and some discussion of the nature of the history of philosophy. The first section of this chapter begins with the above-mentioned classical authors, and their ontological, epi

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Leisure and Human Nature,s will explore archaeological evidence from a range of international settings. The first section of the chapter will concentrate on the pre-history of humanity in general, with an account of the deep history of leisure in the cultural lives of . and our earlier hominid ancestors. I will argue that a

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Leisure, Islam and Byzantium,er will begin with the Greens and Blues, first met in Chapter 1. A wider account of the role of leisure, games and elite and popular culture in the Byzantine Empire will contextualize the story of the circus factions. Procopius’ . (1981) will be used to present an account of the activities of the ci

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Leisure in the Middle Ages,ndom and Islam and arguing for the influence of the latter on the former’s courtly leisure culture (Beaver, 2008). The first section of this chapter will give an overview of the rise of feudalism from the Merovingian and Carolingian Empires through to the 1200s, with discussion on the connection bet