Decentring Leisure Erwin F. Cook Plasticity research asks foundational questions

Plasticity research asks foundational questions about how living organisms are capable of variation in their genetic makeup and in their responses to environmental factors

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Decentring Leisure Erwin F. Cook Plasticity research asks foundational questionsThis book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of the key social formations of our time: capitalism, modernity and postmodernity Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a comprehensive survey and rethinking of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional 'centring' of the concept of leisure on 'escape', 'freedom', 'choice'. In