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Free Time Free Time Julie l. rose Princeton University Press Princeton and oxford Copyright © 2016 by Princeton university Press Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 in the united Kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock, oxfordshire oX20 1Tr press.princeton.edu All rights reserved isBN 978- 0- 691- 16345- 1 library of Congress Control Number: 2016944395 British library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in sabon Next lT Pro Printed on acid- free paper ∞ Printed in the united states of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 for my family, and for herschel CoNTeNTs Acknowledgments ix chaPter 1 introduction 1 chaPter 2 leisure as a specific Good 15 chaPter 3 Free Time as a resource 39 chaPter 4 The Claim to Free Time 66 chaPter 5 shared Free Time 93 chaPter 6 Free Time for Caregivers 112 chaPter 7 Conclusion: Time for What We Will 127 Bibliography 147 Index 163 ACKNoWleDGmeNTs ih ave benefited immensely from the support of many people and institu- tions while writing this book, and i am grateful to have the opportunity to acknowledge them here. While any remaining errors are my own, the book is much better for their generous help. The book began at Princeton university in the Department of Politics and Program in Political Philoso- phy, where i received the support of the university Center for Human Values. Charles Beitz has been a truly wonderful advisor from the inception of this project, and i am tremendously grateful to him for his clear- sightedness and wisdom, on matters great and small, throughout. melissa lane, a constant source of encouragement and support, immeasurably helped the project with her wide- ranging contributions and me with her generous mentorship. Alan Patten provided exceptionally incisive comments at each stage, and my argu- ment, from its foundations to extensions, has been shaped to a remarkable degree by my attempts to meet his objections. stephen macedo served as an ideal examiner, and i am grateful for his insightful comments and generous support throughout and beyond this project. Philip Pettit provided excel- lent advice throughout, and especially in the important early stages. i was fortunate to spend two postdoctoral years in the stimulating in- tellectual communities of Brown university’s Political Theory Project and stanford university’s mcCoy Family Center for ethics in society. i am especially grateful to John Tomasi, Debra satz, and rob reich for their invalu- able support and guidance. Dartmouth College has been the ideal place to revise and complete the manuscript, with welcoming and encour aging col- leagues in the Government Department and friends in the Philosophy and economics Departments. special thanks are due to those who read versions of the full manuscript. lucas stanczyk and rob reich provided careful and insightful comments as part of a book manuscript workshop generously sponsored by the John ix