The value of leisure in the game of essence and appearance of capitalist social relations

Abstract

The article presents a study on leisure, its meanings and contradictions in the capitalist society, emphasizing the game of essence and appearance as an explanatory metaphor. It considers use value and exchange value as founding features of differentiation of the essence and appearance in leisure. It offers the reader a perspective linked to the concepts of valuable experience and humanist leisure in order to understand how it is possible to overcome the contradictions of leisure and break the logic of capital through interventions promoted by the State. The construction of such critical analysis envisaged the theoretical framework presenting the leisure contradictions stimulated by capitalist social relations.