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Europe as the Crisis of Play
Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter
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Europe as the Crisis of Play
Chouraqui's hypothesis (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) about the essence of European modernity: that it is the cultural invention of seriousness, and therefore that Europe is best defined as the graveyard of play. Europe is not a…
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Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945), best known for Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Waning / Autumntide of the Middle Ages, 1919) and Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture (1938). In the wiki he enters as the central interlo…
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The Play-Element (Huizinga)
Johan Huizinga's concept (from Homo Ludens, 1938), as deployed by Chouraqui in "Europe as the Crisis of Play" (2025): play is the primary, unitary "mental continuum" out of which civilization gradually carves the separated modes of playful…