Huizinga, tudo é “play” ou de como tudo, afinal, pode ser “falso-play”. Alguns problemas
Huizinga, everything is “play” or how everything, after all, can be “false-play”. A few problems
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https://doi.org/10.12795/araucaria.2024.i57.04Keywords:
Conflation; Culture; Elitism; Puerility; Seriousness.Abstract
This article will consider some problems with Huizinga’s work, Homo Ludens, in which the social factor “play” was proposed as a constant and the basis of human civilisation, in short, that “everything is play”. The critique will take into account some of the main arguments presented therein, resulting in an analysis of what is considered to be a conceptual confusion between “play” and “game”, or “ludicity” and “game”; a contradiction between the author’s own terms when comparing a presumed “play” of the past with what he considers to be that of the present; and an engagement that is co-related with the two previous points. With this path, the Huizingian hypothesis of a “false play” should also be clarified.
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