Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture [Audiobook] download free by Johan Huizinga
- Listen audiobook: Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
- Author: Johan Huizinga
- Release date: 2016/8/13
- Publisher: ANGELICO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781621389996
- Rating: 9.9 of 10
- Votes: 504
- Review by: Paula Miranda
- Review rating: 8.71 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/3
- Duration: 2H56M41S in 256 kbps (46.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV, MPC, WMA, AIFF, ATRAC (compression TZO, RAR, ZIP, LHA, ISO, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 232
- Includes a PDF summary of 21 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M50S (4.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In Homo Ludens, Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. He identifies five characteristics of play: it is free; it is not 'ordinary' or 'real' life; it is distinct from 'ordinary' life both as to locality and duration; it creates order; it is connected with no material interest, and from it no profit can be gained. With cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics, Huizinga examines play in all its diverse guises-as it relates to language, law, war, knowledge, poetry, myth, philosophy, art, and much more. As he writes, 'Civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play like a baby detaching itself from the womb: it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.' Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of 'man the player' through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modern world. With an eye for our own times he writes: 'In American politics [play] is even more evident. Long before the two-party system had reduced itself to two gigantic teams whose political differences were hardly discernible to an outsider, electioneering in America had developed into a kind of national sport.' With its remarkable historical sweep, Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come. 'A fascinating account of 'man the player' and the contribution of play to civilization.'-Harper's 'A writer with a sharp and powerful intelligence, helped by a gift of expression and exposition which is very rare, Huizinga assembles and interprets one of the most fundamental elements of human culture: the instinct for play. Reading this volume, one suddenly discovers how profoundly the achievements in law, science, poverty, war, philosophy, and in the arts, are nourished by the instinct of play.'-Roger Caillois, editor of Diogenes
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, Cultural Studies
- Download servers: Dropbox, 4Shared, Zippyshare, Gett, FileServe, Google Drive, Uploaded, BitShare. Compressed in TZO, RAR, ZIP, LHA, ISO, RPM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 18.96 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x13mm
- Weight: 299g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Ranchos de Taos, United States
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