LEISURE AS LIFE - OUTLINE OF A POSTSTRUCTURALIST RECONSTRUCTION

Poststructuralist analyses of social phenomena are not new. They do, h owever, provide a critique of previous approaches to the study of leis ure that deconstructs former projects. This paper is an attempt to rec onstruct the study of leisure by suggesting 1) elements of the poststr ucturalist critique, 2) an introduction to the basis of a phenomenolog ical framework, and 3) an outline of elements in such an agenda for le isure theory and research. These elements include a dialectic of socia l and existential metaphors in a context of change.