Book, Homo Ludens: the game as an element of culture[LS]

Homo ludens is the most important work in the philosophy of history of our century. A writer of acute and powerful intelligence, helped by a gift of expression and exposition that is very rare, Huizinga brings together and interprets one of the fundamental elements of human culture: the instinct for play. Reading this volume, one soon discovers how deeply achievements in law, science, poetry, war, philosophy, and the arts are nourished by the instinct of play. [Roger Caillois]. Reissue, revised and restructured with translation by the Portuguese-Brazilian philosopher João Paulo Monteiro revised and adapted by Newton Cunha.