Play reconsidered : sociological perspectives on human expression /

Main Author: Henricks, Thomas S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Johan Huizinga's challenge to play studies
  • Karl Marx on creativity and alienation
  • Emile Durkheim on the social foundations of expression
  • Max Weber and the rationalization of play
  • Georg Simmel and the play-forms of social life
  • Erving Goffman on play as encounter
  • Play as human expression.