ABSTRACT
Leisure Studies has come of age in the last thirty years and its interdisciplinarity has been diagnosed as a key factor in its successful development. In the twentieth century, monographs dealing with foundational aspects of leisure are quite scarce. The harvest of publications on issues touching the philosophical foundations of leisure is in the twenty-first century more substantial than in the previous century. The purpose of this book is to approach the phenomenon of leisure from a truly 'pure' philosophical perspective in the hope that new ideas are born that could contribute to revitalising the study of leisure, or 'dead leisure theory' as assessed by Blackshaw, leading to a revisiting of Moorhouse's assessment that 'the real orthodoxy of leisure studies is a conceptual and theoretical confusion coupled with unwillingness to break out of its own isolation', thereby bringing some relief to the crisis Leisure Studies apparently is in.
