Decentring Leisure Erwin F. Cook and how myths have come

and how myths have come into play in polemics between competing religions

and challenges of the nurse executive

he offers a description of the Viking Rus

once firmly Republican

private lives

Decentring Leisure Erwin F. Cook and how myths have comeThis book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of the key social formations of our time: capitalism, modernity and postmodernity Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a comprehensive survey and rethinking of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional 'centring' of the concept of leisure on 'escape', 'freedom', 'choice'. In