Roger Caillois

Broschiertes Buch

Man, Play and Games

Beschreibung

According to Roger Caillois, play is "an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.

Autor

Roger Caillois (1913-78), a French philosopher and writer, was a cofounder of France's pathbreaking CollÈge de Sociologie pour l'Étude du SacrÉ and the founding editor of Diogenes, the journal of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. His books included works of anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, art, and literary criticism. Meyer Barash, coeditor of Marriage and the Family: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Problems, was on the faculty of Hofstra College in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9780252070334
• ISBN-10: 025207033X
• Artikelnr.: 21787656