Leisure

LeisureIntellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future. Leisure is a genealogy of the concept of leisure, from its peak in the classical age to its inversion and fall in modern liberalism. The goal of this genealogy is to analyze models of leisure and to inquire into the potential future shape of it. In that process, Jacob T. Snyder asks: what was leisure in its peak form in the classical age? In such a form,

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present an up-to-date analysis of the construction industry’s business model and the challenges the industry faces in the twenty-first century

Deepens and enriches our understanding of the Jewish literary tradition and the implications of the Shoah

This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century

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Divine Scapegoats is a wide-ranging exploration of the parallels between the heavenly and the demonic in early Jewish apocalyptical accounts

Both speculative and mythopoetic

This approach takes into account performance traits of growth

This chapter begins by detailing the major aspects of the virtue ethics tradition

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