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Author Zerilli, John, author.

Title The Economic Imperative : Leisure and Imagination in the 21st Century.

Publication Info. Luton : Andrews UK, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (111 pages).
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Series Societas, 3
Societas ; 3.
Contents Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Quotes; Preface; Body Matter; Introduction: The Problem Stated; Leisure and the Economic Imperative; Leisure and the Roots of Civil Society; Competitive Sport and the Spectacle of Play; Imagination and the Scientific Spirit; Art, Religion and the Quest for Purpose; Back Matter; Also Available.
Summary The book explores the role of leisure in modern life. It was written in the belief that leisure sets us apart as a species, that what is "useless" by commercial standards is probably the best thing we have going for us, and that leisure is under attack, in high danger of being lost, and has been for some time (since at least the end of the Second World War). The source of the problem is the ascendancy of the economic imperative, the subordination of the science of means (philosophy) by the s ...
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Subject Leisure -- Sociological aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Leisure -- Sociological aspects. (OCoLC)fst00996046
Other Form: Print version: Zerilli, John. Economic Imperative : Leisure and Imagination in the 21st Century. Luton : Andrews UK, ©2011 9781845402310
ISBN 9781845403430 (electronic bk.)
1845403436 (electronic bk.)
1845402316 (electronic bk.)
9781845402310 (electronic bk.)
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