Reading Huizinga / / Willem Otterspeer ; translated from the Dutch by Beverley Jackson [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Otterspeer W.
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 907.202
• Soggetto topico: Historians - Netherlands
• Persona (resp. second.): JacksonBeverley
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Life and work -- Reading and writing -- Contrast and harmony -- Passion and synaesthesia -- Method and mysticism -- Extrapolation and metamorphosis -- Coda.
• Sommario/riassunto: <p>Johan Huizinga, the Dutch founding father of cultural history, ranks among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known is Huizinga's revolutionary insight into the formative role of play in human culture, a theory he espoused in the celebrated <i>Homo Ludens</i>, which was published in 1938. For Huizinga, philology was the mother of all interpretive endeavors, reading and writing were part of a collective ritual that channeled human passion into beautiful forms, and passion remained the fundamental fact of human life. In this clear, engaging study, the renowned Dutch scholar Willem Otterspeer paints an original portrait of Huizinga in the context of interwar Europe - and shares his subject's own hallmark passion for history.</p>
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading Huizinga
• ISBN: 1-283-05022-6; 9786613050229; 90-485-1148-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789631103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II