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Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece (Paperback)
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What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this
question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as
this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by
luminaries like Plato and Aristotle. Over the course of eight
chapters, this book contextualizes those debates, and demonstrates
their significance for theoretical problems today. Topics include
the ancient child psychology at the root of the ancient Greek word
for 'play' (paidia), the numerous toys that have survived from
antiquity, and the meaning of play's conceptual opposite, the
'serious' (spoudaios). What emerges is a concept of play markedly
different from the one we have inherited from modernity. Play is
not a certain set of activities which unleashes a certain feeling
of pleasure; it is rather a certain feeling of pleasure that
unleashes the activities we think of as 'play'. As such, it offers
a new set of theoretical challenges.
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