الإنسان اللاعب: دراسة في عنصر اللعب في الثقافة (Homo ludens)

مقدمة

Huizinga published “Homo ludens” in 1938 in Haarlem, developing a lecture he had given in 1933; a German edition appeared in 1939 and an English one in 1949. The book defines play as a free activity, outside ordinary life, with its own boundaries of time and space and its own rules, and argues that culture arises in and as play. Huizinga traces the play element in language, law, war, knowledge, poetry, philosophy and art, and closes with a critical look at modern culture, in which play is in decline. The book founded the study of play in the humanities and influenced Roger Caillois, Gadamer and later game studies.

مزيد من أعمال يوهان هويزنجا

• 1919اضمحلال العصور الوسطى