by Johan Huizinga · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420635392
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«Homo ludens» is Johan Huizinga's essay on play as a cultural phenomenon, published by Alianza in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Huizinga argues that play is not a trivial activity but an essential function like reflection or work. Against homo sapiens and homo faber, Huizinga proposes homo ludens: culture has a playful character. Huizinga analyses rituals, law, art and war as manifestations of play.
This edition is part of the El Libro de Bolsillo - Historia collection (no. 4181), with a translation by Eugenio Imaz Echeverría.
Suitable for students and readers of history, philosophy and anthropology interested in play as the basis of culture.
Johan Huizinga was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
