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Work, Leisure and Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Vukan Kuic
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Throughout the ages it has been held that leisure is the basis of culture. This view can be found in the Old Testament and in Plato, in Burke, Marx, Veblen, and in T. S. Eliot. Whether they were glad for it or sad, people seem to have always taken it for granted that in order to have culture one must first have leisure. Applicable to society as well as to individuals, this rule was put concisely by Dr. Johnson as follows: “All intellectual improvement arises from leisure; all leisure arises from one working for another.”

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 436 - 465
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1981

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