The Importance of Being Lazy

In Praise of Play, Leisure, and Vacation

Al Gini (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97869-9 (ISBN)

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From shopping sprees and extreme sports to the ultimate vacation - retirement -The Importance of Being lazy demonstrates that without true leisure, we are diminished as individuals and as a society.

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of vacation habits and the observations of philosophers, writers, and sociologists such as Aristotle, Mark Twain and Thorstein Veblen, Al Gini argues why vacations are so venerated and why 'doing nothing' is a fundamental human necessity.

From shopping sprees and extreme sports to the ultimate vacation - retirement - The Importance of Being lazy demonstrates that without true leisure, we are diminished as individuals and as a society.

Al Gini is a Philosophy Professor at Loyola University Chicago and a member of Loyola's Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations. He is the co-founder and Associate Editor of the journal Business EthicsQuarterly and the author of Why IT's Hard to BeGood(Routledge).

Prologue: The Project and the Problem 1. The Other Side of Leisure Work, Damn it! 2. Leisure and Culture 3. Vacations and Traveling 4. Mini Vacations The Weekend 5. Shopping as Leisure and Play 6. Sports and Play 7. The Ultimate Vacation Retirement
Epilogue: Sabbath as Metaphor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.2.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-97869-6 / 0415978696
ISBN-13	978-0-415-97869-9 / 9780415978699
Zustand	Neuware