TY - BOOK ID - 137109718 TI - The meaning and purpose of leisure : Habermas and leisure at the end of modernity PY - 2009 SN - 9780230205253 PB - Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Leisure KW - Social aspects KW - Habermas, Jürgen. KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137109718 AB - "This book is a crucial contribution to the debate about the meaning and purpose of leisure at the end of modernity. Karl Spracklen uses Jurgen Habermas's work on the tension of rationalities to situate leisure and critical studies of leisure as meaningful and valuable in the twenty-first century. In particular, Spracklen uses Habermas' concerns between free, communicative discourse and globalizing, commodifying instrumentality to interrogate leisure as a critical, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, popular culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization."--Publisher's website. ER -