Leisure's Legacy : Challenging the Common Sense View of Free Time

• Main Author: Stebbins, Robert A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Religion and culture.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Sports > Sociological aspects.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319597942
• Physical Description: IX, 221 p. 2 illus. online resource.

This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today's world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition. Leisure's modern legacy is both profound and immense, as a...