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The Mythopoetic Roots of Play

Alexander V. Kozin

出版	Paideia, 2023
ISBN	9798861675024
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=m_ee0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This book offers a comprehensive study of play. A seemingly fleeting phenomenon, play has eluded intense scholarly attention. Yet, the sheer pervasiveness and mundaneness of play demands that we reevaluate its significance for our lives. We must ask ourselves: Where does play come from? Who does it belong to? and How is it conducted? Having posed these questions, this study seeks and finds the roots of play in mythopoetics. It also identifies the child as the main conduit of play. The study of the child at play begins with the notion of mythopoetic consciousness and proceeds with the key mythopoetic sources that explore play specifically: the Presocratics, Plato, Vico, Schelling, Schiller, Nietzsche, Frazer, Lévi-Bruhl, Freud, and Jung. Eugen Fink continues this exploration with a focused philosophical (phenomenological) study of play. A philological take on mythic logic by Jakov Golosovker and Olga Freidenberg expands the subject of this book further. Finally, moving from the theory of play toward its empirical manifestations, this study engages the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean Piaget whose contributions consist of a phenomenological psychology of the child and a psychology of play, respectively. The book ends with a mini ethnography of play that brings the findings of this study to empirical research.