From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: 'game over' design
Date: 2002.05.12 11:59
required reading?
Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: a study of the play element in culture (Boston, Beacon Press, 1955).
Chapters:
1. nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon
2. the play-concept as expressed in language
3. play and contest as civilizing functions
4. play and law
5. play and war
6. playing and knowing
7. play and poetry
8. the elements of mythopoiesis
9. play-forms in philosophy
10. play-forms in art
11. western civilization sub specie ludi
12. the play-element in contemporary civilization
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