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Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

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1. Reclaiming Leisure 2. Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development 3. The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered 4. Critical Thoughts on Leisure 5. The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture 6. Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates

Decolonizing Time Work Leisure and Freedom

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      Publisher Palgrave MacMillan Us
      Published 9/19/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781137364647
      978-1137364647
      ISBN-10 1137364645
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      History: specific events and topics Social and political philosophy

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      Book Synopsis
      Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

      Table of Contents
      1. Reclaiming Leisure 2. Criticizing After Dinner: Marx and the Fight for Time for Human Development 3. The Reification of Time-Consciousness and the Fight for Time Reconsidered 4. Critical Thoughts on Leisure 5. The Culture Industry: The Extension of Work, Disciplined Leisure, and the Deterioration of Culture 6. Developing a Politics of Time: André Gorz and the Domestic Labor Debates

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