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Record Nr.

UNINA9910330457003321

Autore

Dobler Gregor

Titolo

Musse und Gesellschaft / / herausgegeben von Gregor Dobler und Peter Philipp Riedl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mohr Siebeck, 2019

Tübingen, [Germany] : , : Mohr Siebeck, , 2017

©2017

Edizione

[1. Aufl.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages)

Collana

Otium. Studien zur Theorie und Kulturgeschichte der Muse, , 2367-2072 ; ; 5

Disciplina

790.0135

Soggetti

Leisure - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet not subjected to time's dominion. Leisure may hence at first glance appear to be an individual experience and remove individuals from societal constraints, but it is also an eminently social phenomenon. Capacities for successfully claiming spaces of leisure for oneself are distributed in an extremely unequal manner. Freedom for leisure often becomes a defining and fiercely contested feature of specific social roles. This volume, which contains seventeen essays from ten different disciplines, illuminates leisure's societal dimension in varying historical and cultural contexts, while illustrating its symbolic capital in its respective manifestations.