In Play and the Human Condition , Thomas Henricks brings together ways of considering play to probe its essential relationship to work, ritual, and communitas. Focusing on five contexts for play--the psyche, the body, the environment, society, and culture--Henricks identifies conditions that instigate play, and comments on its implications for those settings. Offering a general theory of play as behavior promoting self-realization, Henricks articulates a conception of self that includes individual and social identity, particular and transcendent connection, and multiple fields of involvement. Henricks also evaluates play styles from history and contemporary life to analyze the relationship between play and human freedom. Imaginative and stimulating, Play and the Human Condition shows how play allows us to learn about our qualities and those of the world around us--and in so doing make sense of ourselves.
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Thomas S. Henricks is the Danieley Professor of Sociology at Elon University and author of Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression .
Titel
Play and the Human Condition
Autor
EAN
9780252097058
ISBN
978-0-252-09705-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
14.04.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.39 MB
Anzahl Seiten
256
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch
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