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• Europe as the Crisis of Play Frank Chouraqui, 2025

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…