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Play in the Age of Goethe Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 / edited by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New studies in the age of Goethe.
- New studies in the age of Goethe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Play--Social aspects.
- Play--Psychological aspects.
- Play--Social aspects--History--19th century.
- Play.
- Play--Social aspects--History--18th century.
- Play--Psychological aspects--History--19th century.
- Play--Psychological aspects--History--18th century.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisberg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background-we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in German letters of this period to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play can be traced to these foundational discourses"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Note continued: ch. Ten Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher's Metalangual Poetics / David Martyn
- ch. Eleven Playing With Words In Early German Romanticism / Brian Tucker.
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Free Play
- ch. One Beauty And Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry's Transformation Of Aesthetic Philosophy / Christian P. Weber
- ch. Two Free Play In German Idealism And Poststructuralism / Samuel Heidepriem
- pt. II Games of Chance
- ch. Three "Mit Dem Spiele Spielen": Lessing's Play For Tolerance / Edgar Landgraf
- ch. Four Play With Memory And Its Topoi: Faust / Nicholas Rennie
- pt. III Children's Play
- ch. Five Narcissus At Play: Goethe, Piaget, And The Passage From Egocentric To Social Play / Elliott Schreiber
- ch. Six Playthings: Goethe's Favorite Toys / Patricia Anne Simpson
- ch. Seven Kindergarten And The Pedagogy Of Play In The German Educational Revolution / Ian F. Mcneely
- Interlude
- ch. Eight Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi's Sock 1799 / Christiane Frey
- pt. IV The Play of Language
- ch. Nine Between Speaking And Listening: Jean Paul's Wordplay / Michael Powers
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68448-210-0
- OCLC:
- 1181849913
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