| Description |
1 online resource (91 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Introduction; I. Erasmus; II. Huizinga; III. The Seriousness of Play; Conclusion; Notes; Concise Bibliography; Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
In Praise of Ambiguity presents a discourse about the seriousness of play. Erasmus and Huizinga are its main characters, their books In Praise of Folly (1511) and Homo Ludens (1938) its main subject. It treats those books as contemporaries and asks what they still have to say to us. The main theme of both books is the contrast between two attitudes of life: the conviction that each subject has two or more sides as opposed to the certainty that there is always only one side to the matter. It is relativism versus essentialism, play versus seriousness. In these times of populism and fundamentalis |
| Analysis |
Erasmus, Huizinga, Homo Ludens, game studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-88) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Moriae encomium.
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Huizinga, Johan, 1872-1945. Homo ludens
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| SUBJECT |
Homo ludens (Huizinga, Johan) fast |
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Moriae encomium (Erasmus, Desiderius) fast |
| Subject |
Folly in literature.
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Western philosophy: Medieval and Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600.
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History of ideas.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
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Folly in literature
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Literature: history and criticism.
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History of ideas.
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Humanist philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9400603266 |
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9789400603264 |
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