The Theory of Leisure Class

Japanese: 《The Theory of Leisure Class》(英語表記)TheTheoryofLeisureClass
The Theory of Leisure Class

...This is the reason why leisure theory quickly turned into a theory of systems and a question of the basic image of human beings. In this sense, the direct starting point of modern leisure theory would be Marx's son-in-law P. Lafargue's pamphlet "The Right to Be Lazy" (1883) and TB Veblen's "The Theory of Leisure Class" (1899), which built a unique economic and social theory with the allocation of leisure as one of its axes. In the developed capitalist countries of America and Western Europe, the obvious phenomenon of popularizing leisure began after the 1930s, which marked the turning point of structural changes such as the New Deal and the Popular Front.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "The Theory of Leisure Class" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…レジャー論がすぐに体制論および基本的な人間像の問題に転化していく根拠はそこにあるといえよう。 そうした意味で現在のレジャー論の直接の起点となるものは,マルクスの娘婿P.ラファルグのパンフレット《怠ける権利Le Droit à la paresse》(1883),レジャーの配分様式を一つの軸に独特な経済・社会理論を築いたT.B.ベブレンの《有閑階級論The Theory of Leisure Class》(1899)あたりであろう。アメリカ,西ヨーロッパなどの資本主義先進諸国でだれの目にも明らかなレジャーの大衆化現象がおこるのは,ニューディール政策,人民戦線などの構造変化を画期とする1930年代以降のことである。…

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