Roger Caillois: Man, Play and Games

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Cover: 9780252070334 | Man, Play and Games | Roger Caillois | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2001

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In Man, Play and Games, Caillois investigates the phenomenon of play, which he describes as "an occasion of pure waste: waste of time, energy, ingenuity, skill, and often of money." Caillois defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life. Play is uncertain, since the outcome may not be foreseen, and it is governed by rules that provide a level playing field for all participants. In its most basic form, play consists of finding a response to the opponent's action -- or to the play situation -- that is free within the limits set by the rules.

Caillois develops a matrix of types of game, based on whether the role of competition, chance, simulation, or vertigo (being physically out of control) is dominant. Against this, he sets a continuum of ways of playing, ranging from the unrestricted, joyful improvisation characteristic of children's play to the disciplined pursuit of solutions to gratuitously difficult puzzles. Caillois also examines the means by which games become part of daily life and ultimately contribute to various cultures their most characteristic customs and institutions.

Über den 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.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2001
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	224
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780252070334
ISBN-10:	025207033X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Caillois, Roger
Übersetzung:	Barash, Meyer
Hersteller:	University of Illinois Press
Maße:	209 x 141 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Roger Caillois
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.08.2001
Gewicht:	0,277 kg

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