ABSTRACT
In the previous chapter one of my principal concerns was to ensure that the reader did not misunderstand the true character of the postmodern imagination. Far from being an eccentricity of cultural relativism, or just another ‘ism’, it should be best understood as the continuation of skholē by an alternative means. In this final part of the book, I want to put some conceptual flesh on my argument that in the postmodern imagination there are certain intrinsic features which permit us to see leisure in a new light, and not only that, but also that it provides us with a moral framework to live by, which is governed by very different rules from those that pertain to a modern society built on social class lines.
