![]() ![]() It is not “ordinary,” in other words, is an interlude to daily life, both in duration and location with certain limits of time and place. All are rooted in the primaeval soil of play.” 1 He describes all play as voluntary and free. Play, he stated, is older than culture, and he saw all human activities as playing where “…the great instinctive forces of civilized life have their origin: law and order, commerce and profit, craft and art, poetry, wisdom and science. In the first chapter, “Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural Phenomenon,” Huizinga attempted to define and describe play especially as it relates to culture. The title, Homo Ludens, translates to mean Man the Player. His book suggested the instinct for play as the central element in human culture and examined the role of play in law, war, science, poetry, philosophy, and art. ![]() Homo Ludens: a study of the play element in culture was written in 1938 by Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian who lived from 1872 to 1945. ![]()
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