Download Isn't This Fun: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves AudioBook Free
Michael Foley needs to understand why he doesn't look like experiencing just as much fun as everyone else. So, with quality wit and humour, he pieces out to understand what fun really means, evaluating its history, its cultural relevance and the various activities we associate with fun. He investigates pursuits such as dancing, sex, vacations, sport, gambling and funny and concludes that fun is challenging, simple and resolved, as many seem to trust, but elusive, sophisticated and constantly changing. Actually fun is a profoundly serious business - a range of new group rituals developing in response to social developments, often determined just as much by spirituality as hedonism. Also, while fun is a modern phenomenon, as it happens to acquire re-created many of the elements of early on ritual. His conclusions will invigorate you with insights, make you chuckle at life and quite possibly help you to understand why the post-postmodern is actually the pre-premodern. Michael Foley was born in Derry, North Ireland, but has lived almost all of his adult life in London, working for 23 years as a lecturer in it at the University of Westminster before retiring in 2007 to focus on full-time writing. He has posted critically acclaimed poetry, novels and nonfiction, including New and Selected Poems (Blackstaff Press, 2011). His first nonfiction publication, The Era of Absurdity (Simon & Schuster, 2010), was a best owner and has been translated into seven dialects.
