Time, Leisure and Well-Being

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Leisure, Work, and Well-Being through a Historical Lens
	1 Leisure that Never Existed Before: A Historical Perspective
	2 Was Plato a Friend or a Foe of Leisure?
	3 Aristotle: Philosopher of Leisure and Happiness
	4 Leisure in Ancient Rome: Otium and Panem et Circenses
	5 Seneca: Philosopher of Tranquillity and Sadness
	6 From the Vale of Tears to the Renaissance
	7 St. Augustine: Leisure and Well-Being in the Earthly City and the City of God
	8 Thomas Aquinas: Vita Activa or Vita Contemplativa?
	9 Work and Leisure in Thomas More’s Utopia
	10 Montaigne’s Essays and Pascal’s Pensées: of Diversion and Happiness
	11 Enlightenment’s Vision of Work, Leisure, and the Arts
	12 Adam Smith: Capitalism with a Human Face?
	13 The 19th Century…Was there Ever a Golden Age?
	14 Alexis De Tocqueville: Why are Americans Restless Amidst Prosperity?
	15 Karl Marx: Between the ‘Realm of Freedom’ and ‘Material Necessity’
	16 Emile Durkheim: of Labour, Leisure, and Anomie
	17 Max Weber: of Work Ethic, Leisure, and Disenchantment
	18 Thorstein Veblen: from the Ethics of Work to Conspicuous Consumption
	19 The 20th Century: Farewell to the ‘Belle Époque’
	20 Johan Huizinga: Sub Specie Ludi
	21 Pitirim Sorokin: At the Crossroad of Ideational and Sensate Cultures
	22 Josef Pieper: Apology for Vita Contemplativa
	23 Hannah Arendt: of ‘Human Condition’
	24 From the Middletown and Middletown in Transition to the Lonely Crowd
	25 Leisure Research Yesterday and Today: Quo Vadis?
Part II: Leisure, Work, and Well-Being Today
	Intermission: Changing the Diopter
	26 What Happened to the Society of Leisure? Two Scenarios
	27 Work–Leisure Relationship: The ‘Long Arm of Work’?
	28 Leisure and Social Prestige: Keeping Up With the Joneses?
	29 The Pros and Cons of the ‘Democratization of Culture’
	30 Of Happiness, Leisure, and Riches
	Conclusion
Author Index
Subject Index