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In Praise of Ambiguity : Erasmus, Huizinga and the Seriousness of Play.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publication details: Leiden : Leiden University Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (91 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9400603266
  • 9789400603264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BJ1535 .I577 2018
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Contents:
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Introduction; I. Erasmus; II. Huizinga; III. The Seriousness of Play; Conclusion; Notes; Concise Bibliography; Acknowledgements.

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.

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