For my essay, I would like to write about Lefebvre's "Work and Leisure in Everyday Life". I find the relationship between family, work, and leisure very interesting, since they really are connected to each other. We could not have leisure without work - however, if we did not exist under a capitalist nation or a society in which work was absolutely necessary to survive, would leisure exist? I would like to also touch base on where family falls in with these two ideas. During the bourgeois, aristocrats never worked, and therefore existed off of leisure. That being said, peasants had very little leisure time, and constantly worked. After the bourgeois society, the separation of family, work, and leisure came into play. We must find a medium between these three ideas in order to happily exist. There is also a separation of oneself that comes into play.
Basically, I will be touching base on all of these concepts and continuing the idea of Lefebvre's argument about work, leisure, and family.
This is super interesting to think about because it is so applicable to all of our lives. I think college is a time where many of us start to weigh the importance of work and education versus mental and physical health, and realize that balance is the key to achieving happiness and success. I like that you pointed out the fact that the relationship between work and leisure is cyclical, and the both play off of one another (ie. the more we work, the less time we have for leisure and vice versa). I would be interested to read about your findings as you relate them to the idea of family.
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