Abstract
Leisure offers a dynamic contribution to the field of communication studies especially since it provides an ongoing contribution to the public domain (Goodale and Godbey, 1988). Leisure helps to cultivate communication competence for one's participation in any form of political engagement. Therefore, leisure philosophically enriches one's understanding and practice of political communication by transforming one's participation in the public domain. Many classical and contemporary texts from the Western tradition, including Aristotle's Politics, Cicero's Republic, and John of Salisbury's Policraticus suggest that leisure is fundamentally political and central to the public sphere. Both Western and Eastern political traditions also understand an interconnectedness between public political communicative engagement and philosophical leisure (Liu, 1955; Mills and Murphy, 1973; Lu, 1998; Dawson, 2002). This essay focuses on political communication and leisure specifically within a Western philosophical framework, asserting that political communication and leisure are inescapably linked.
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