The contemporary leisure: an essay of social philosophy

Abstract

This book reveals the author ’s reflexions on the historical evolution of leisure and contemporary characteristics of this phenomenon that is seen in a wide and connected way with culture, life quality, public services and consumption. Michel Bellefleur considers leisure as a time-space in which behaviors based in freedom of choice are possible. For him, leisure is inserted in a global approach of human behavior’s building of the assembly of which it is a mediation among others, a mediation capable of contributing for the development of both personal and collective life. Leisure finds its place easily on the impulses of life polarized in freedom and hedonism used with discernment, intelligence and critical judgment. It presents itself as a germen and a creative potential inserted in an existence project that each one has the responsibility to grow in each one’s way, according to the values that give sense to life, both individual and social ones.