Homo Ludens: Study of the Play Element in Culture by Johan H. Huizinga

Homo Ludens: Study of the Play Element in Culture



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Homo Ludens: Study of the Play Element in Culture Johan H. Huizinga ebook
Page: 230
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0710005784, 9780710005786
Publisher: Routledge


I've read many good authors on these themes, including Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga, about the play element in culture; Peter Berger and D. In this book, the Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Homo Ludens - Imaginary versus Virtual Magic Circles. Johan Huizinga believed that “play” was a fundamental building block in the construction of social identity and culture. Its main thesis is, as striking as it is simple, well known: Culture is founded The element of play can be observed in all different aspects of culture, ranging from seemingly innocuous leisure activities to the uttermost serious and advanced systems, such as the financial world or political institutions. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga My rating: 5 of 5 stars. According to Johan Huizinga, play is one of the most fundamental categories of human life and is intimately bound up in the whole enterprise of human culture. €�Niko Tinbergen, comparative studies and evolution.” In The Tinbergen Legacy. There is another reason, I believe, for the decline in figure skating's popularity in the U.S. Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture. Versuch einer Bestimmung des Spielelements der Kultur (1939), translated as Homo Ludens, a study of the play element in culture). The end of this year will be marked by the 75th anniversary of Johan Huizinga's classic study of the Homo Ludens. I mentioned a week ago that I was reading through the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga's book Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture . Play: - The concept of playing has been existent since mankind has been existent. Winnicott on play in ordinary life; and my graduate advisor David L. In his book "Homo Ludens" (1938) he discusses the possibility that playing is the primary formative element in human culture. For many years I've been interested in game and play as important aspects of human life and culture and cousins to religion, my field of study. Homo Ludens: The Study of Play Element in Culture.

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