Play in a Godless World: The Theory and Practice of Play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud

Open Gate Press (1999)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This text challenges the long tradition which sees human play as the fount of creativity and origin of all civilization. The book traces the history of an alternative theory of play in Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Freud, where play is an end in itself - a cultivation of aesthetic forms which do nothing to disguise their artificiality and which are loved only for the fictions which they are. Nietzsche, the arch-philosopher of play, Freud, the theorizer of slips and jokes, and Shakespeare, master of the man-made illusions of the play world, are shown to anticipate the playful philosophy which has become a hallmark of postmodern times.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 103,314

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Macbeth: Shakespeare Mystery Play.David Lowenthal - 1989 - Interpretation 16 (3):311-357.
History and Play: Johan Huizinga and His Critics.Robert Anchor - 1978 - History and Theory 17 (1):63-93.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-02-13

Downloads
12 (#1,412,176)

6 months
1 (#1,572,794)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references