John Stuart Mill and Leisure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23614297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Snape (0000-0003-4229-0926, University of Greater Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 325-338 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5_18 |
| OpenAlex | W2607283202 |
| ISBN | 9781137564795 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was a major philosopher of Victorian Britain. This chapter discusses his importance to leisure studies through a critical analysis of three of his works, On Liberty , Utilitarianism and The Subjection of Women . The first of these deals with the idea of leisure as freedom and addresses the question of when, or if, the state or any individual has the right to prohibit a person whose actions in leisure harm no one but himself. In Utilitarianism, Mill presents a strong critique of Jeremy Bentham’s Greatest Happiness Principle and argues that some forms of leisure are preferable to others, though in doing so appears to support the function of a leisure class. In The Subjection of Women, Mill argues that gender is a social construction that has denied women of equal status to men, anticipating modern feminist analyses of leisure.
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