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Explore the annals and the nature of that time period we consider ''our own''.
''We work,'' Aristotle wrote, ''in order to have leisure.'' Today, this continues to be true. But is the leisure that Aristotle spoke of--the freedom to do nothing--the identical to the leisure we look forward to each weekend?
There will always be breaks from the routine of work--taboo days, market days, public festivals, holy days--we couldn't survive without them. In Waiting for the Weekend, Witold Rybczynski unfolds the annals and evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present. Along the way, he explores the way the psychological needs that leisure time seeks to satisfy have changed as the nature of work has changed.
