The concept of "leisure” in the context of humanitarian discourse

The article described the essence of methodological approaches: cultural and pedagogical disclosure of cognition of the essential foundations of the theory and practice of leisure. Discusses the epistemological components of the concept of leisure. For example a particular scientific doctrines, traced the Genesis of the essence of the studied concepts. There is a mutual relationship category of leisure with such leading concepts of socio-cultural activities such as socio-cultural interaction, self-education and self-education in socio-cultural institutions, socio-cultural technology. Attention was drawn to the ability of the notion of leisure time to fix the aspect of pedagogical regularities of socio-cultural activities with the purpose of organizing its traffic, in the field of self-development, socialization and self-discipline specific personality. On the level of methodological reflection of learning processes, the essence of leisure revealed a number of contradictions, including between demand theoretical operationalization of the concept of leisure and incomplete development of ideas about the driving forces of its formation and subsequent development in the leading paradigms of socio-cultural activities. Presents the defining features of philosophical principles in the disclosure of the essential characteristics of leisure.