What is a hobby?
Duration: 37 mins 58 secs
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| Description: | A talk given by Clare Chambers at the Moral Sciences Club on 30th April 2024 |
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| Created: | 2024-05-02 11:42 |
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| Collection: | Moral Sciences Club |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Faculty of Philosophy |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | Hobbies are a special kind of leisure. Hobbies include train-spotting, golf, and pottery classes but not watching TV or surfing the internet. Hobbies lie between leisure and work, but are they worklike leisure or leisurely work? And is having a hobby to be admired or mocked? Answering these questions requires a philosophy of hobbies. This talk will sketch the history of hobbies, develop a definition of hobbies, and set out the idea of an “ultimate hobby”. The goal is an argument that hobbies are uniquely valuable activities with implications for politics, gender, and capitalism. |
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