Abstract

Has been the emergence of leisure as part of the development process of modernization. People accustomed to leisure and job matching, as casual as the work of the reward. Leisure and work on a regular basis rotation, mainly the product of industrial capitalism. As long as the expansion of leisure and public recreation and tied the rise of consumer society, recreation will be understood as "the concept of non-productive time" , or been criticized as a "market creation" or a "forced power action ". However, in the "work" and "leisure" between these two opposing vocabulary, while thinking outside of the third between the two vocabulary: "leisure" , discussed the importance of its own. In fact, the "leisure" is the influence of rising, and quickly become a modern "leisure" concept replaced the word. This paper focuses on the writings of the above discussion of Russell's idea of leisure, and sometimes involve the relevant discussion Stevenson and Capek. The emergence of leisure has been mainly seen as part of the process of modernization. We are used to see leisure as the counterpart or as a reward of work, as the consequence of the regular alternation of work and leisure, a product of industrial capitalism. As soon as the expansion of leisure and mass leisure became to be seen as tied to the rise of consumer society, leisure itself could be understood either as a 'non-productive conception of time' or criticized as a 'creature of the market 'and a' forced activity '. Besides the two terms of this opposition between' work 'and' leisure ', it is important to consider a third one:' idleness'. The term imposed itself and soon functioned as an alternative to the modern concept of 'leisure'. The article discusses the argumentative potentials of the notion in the writings of B. Russell, RL Stevenson and K. Capek