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We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in German letters of this period to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play can be traced to these foundational discourses.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today
Part 1: Free Play
Chapter 1: Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy
Christian P. Weber
Chapter 2: Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism
Samuel Heidepriem
Part 2: Games of Chance
Chapter 3: "Mit dem Spiele spielen": Lessing's Play for Tolerance
Edgar Landgraf
Chapter 4: Play with Memory and Its Topoi: Faust
Nicholas Rennie
Part 3: Children's Play
Chapter 5: Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play
Elliott Schreiber
Chapter 6: Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys
Patricia Anne Simpson
Chapter 7: Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution
Ian F. McNeely
Interlude
Chapter 8: Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799
Christiane Frey
Part 4: The Play of Language
Chapter 9: Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul's Word-Play
Michael Powers
Chapter 10: Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics
David Martyn
Chapter 11: Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism
Brian Tucker
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
