Play and aesthetics in ancient Greece

by Kidd, Stephen E.

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Full title :Play and aesthetics in ancient Greece / Stephen E. Kidd, Brown University

Summary

What is art's relationship to play? Those interested in this question tend to look to modern philosophy for answers, but, as this book shows, the question was already debated in antiquity by luminaries like Plato and Aristotle. Over the course of eight chapters, this book contextualizes those debates, and demonstrates their significance for theoretical problems today. Topics include the ancient child psychology at the root of the ancient Greek word for 'play' (paidia), the numerous toys that have survived from antiquity, and the meaning of play's conceptual opposite, the 'serious' (spoudaios). What emerges is a concept of play markedly different from the one we have inherited from modernity. Play is not a certain set of activities which unleashes a certain feeling of pleasure; it is rather a certain feeling of pleasure that unleashes the activities we think of as 'play'. As such, it offers a new set of theoretical challenges

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108588454, 110858845X, 9781108590914, 1108590918
oclc:on1103221144
LC Classification:BF717
Dewey Decimal:155.4/1

The Pais of Paizō: children, intoxication, and play in ancient psycho-physiology -- Why Plato needs play -- Plato's play and the tragic paradox -- What do pleasure-objects do? An inquiry into toys -- Aristotle's demotion of play -- Play vs. mimesis in Aristotle's aesthetics -- Serious play as goal-oriented play -- The value of serious things before and after death

Subjects

Aristotle FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages History Jeu -- Histoire Philosophie ancienne Philosophy, Ancient Plaisir Plato Play Play -- History Pleasure PSYCHOLOGY -- Developmental PSYCHOLOGY -- General