Original scientific paper

Time: Free from What and What for?

Milan Polić ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education, Zagreb, Croatia
Rajka Polić ; Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia

Abstract

With the development of capitalism free time is more and more the subject of spoken and written word, and with its commercialization three profitable economy branches have developed: “entertainment industry”, tourism and sport. Capital, meanwhile, identifies free time as time free from work, or idleness, and only in recent time – when it learnt to make profit out of free time- time free for learning and creativeness, or as leisure.
Difference between idleness, which leans towards consumption, and leisure, which fulfils itself with self-activity, to a great many is still obscure. And that difference is often and purposely concealed meaning to, on one side, commercialize free time more easily and, on the other hand, to quash its socially revolutionary surge. For that purpose is also the concealing of difference between work and self-activity, and the question is asked: are the sport competitions a game or a work? Or precisely: “Does one play football, or does one do football?”

Keywords

idleness; leisure; game; education; alienation; sport; work; self-activity; free time; creativeness

Hrčak ID:

41405

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/41405

Publication date:

21.7.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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