Caillois's "Man, Play, and Games": An Appreciation and Evaluation

Autor/in	Henricks, Thomas S.
Titel	Caillois's "Man, Play, and Games": An Appreciation and Evaluation
Quelle	In: American Journal of Play, 3 (2010) 2, S.157-185 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1938-0399
Schlagwörter	Play; Games; Sociology; Profiles; World History; Standards; Scholarship; Social Influences; Behavior; Creativity; Imagination + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spiel; Game; Spiele; Soziologie; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Weltgeschichte; Standard; Scholarships; Stipendium; Sozialer Einfluss; Kreativität
Abstract	This article explores the contributions of Roger Caillois to the study of human play. The initial portion of the essay focuses on Caillois's scholarly career as a response to the public events and intellectual movements of his time. The author shows how Caillois's responses influenced the portraits of play that he developed in such important books as "Man and the Sacred" and "Man, Play, and Games." The article then analyzes the themes Caillois developed in these writings and compares them to Johan Huizinga's interpretation of play in "Homo Ludens." In a final section, the article shows the continued pertinence of Caillois's approach to contemporary scholarship and offers author's own evaluation of this theory. (As Provided).
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