Waiting For the Weekend by Rybczynski Witold

Waiting For the Weekend by Rybczynski Witold

We work, Aristotle wrote, in order to have leisure. Today, this is still true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of--the freedom to do nothing--the same as the leisure we look forward to each weekend? There have always been breaks from the routine of work--taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days--we couldn't survive without them. In Waiting for the Weekend, Witold Rybczynski unfolds the history and evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present. Along the way, he explores how the psychological needs that leisure time seeks to fulfill have changed as the nature of work has changed.

Rybczynski, Witold: - Witold Rybczynski has written about architecture for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Slate. Among his award-winning books are Home, The Most Beautiful House in the World, and A Clearing in the Distance, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He lives with his wife in Philadelphia, where he is the emeritus professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. How Architecture Works is his eighteenth book.

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ISBN 13	9780140126631
ISBN 10	0140126635
Titel	Waiting For the Weekend
Autor	Rybczynski Witold
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-07-30
Seitenanzahl	272
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