Full Description
Understanding the significance of adult play in the life of modern societies
Contents
1. Johan Huizinga 's Challenge to Play Studies; 2. Karl Marx on Creativity and Alienation; 3. Emile Durkheim on the Social Foundations of Expression; 4. Max Weber and the Rationalization of Play; 5. Georg Simmel and the Play-Forms of Social Life; 6. Erving Goffman on Play as Encounter; 7. Play as Human Expression