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Both notions examined in this chapter — time and leisure — pose considerable definitional difficulties. St Augustine, struggling in the fourth century with the concept of time, wrote: ‘What then is time? If no one asks of me, I know; if I wish to explain to him who asks, I know not’ (St Augustine, Confessions, XI, 14). Ennis, in an article published 16 centuries later, expressed a similar puzzlement with the notion of leisure: ‘Of all the great categories of life, leisure is surely one of the most untidy’ (Ennis, 1968: 525). Yet, paradoxically, time is often used to define leisure. So, what then, is the relationship between leisure and time? Can an equation containing two ‘unknowns’ be solved with any certainty?
I would like to thank Roger Mannell and Margo Hilbrecht for their comments and assistance in preparing this chapter.
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Zuzanek, J. (2006). Leisure and Time. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_11
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