The term free time (like Italian tempo libero, Spanish tiempo libre, and German Freizeit; cf. American spare time) is defined etymologically as the opposite of “occupied time” or working hours. The “freedom” of time has positive connotations; it suggests voluntary, pleasant occupations and a historical process of liberation from social obligations and travail. This is ultimately a negative definition, since free time is determined primarily buy what it does not entail.

Free time

Alessandro Arcangeli
2018-01-01

Abstract

The term free time (like Italian tempo libero, Spanish tiempo libre, and German Freizeit; cf. American spare time) is defined etymologically as the opposite of “occupied time” or working hours. The “freedom” of time has positive connotations; it suggests voluntary, pleasant occupations and a historical process of liberation from social obligations and travail. This is ultimately a negative definition, since free time is determined primarily buy what it does not entail.
2018
Inglese
STAMPA
Comitato scientifico
5
Encyclopedia of Early Modern History
Graeme Dunphy
Brill
Leiden-Boston
PAESI BASSI
978-90-04-26983-5
619
623
5
leisure, work, recreation
Traduzione inglese di Freizeit, in Friedrich Jaeger (a cura di), Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit, vol. 3, Metzler, Stuttgart-Weimar 2006, pp. 1215-1221.
Arcangeli, Alessandro
1
271
02 Contributo in volume::02.04 Voce (in dizionario o enciclopedia)
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