Johan Huizinga

An essential reference for all game designers, this 1938 classic is “a fascinating account of ‘man the player’ and the contribution of play to civilization” (Harper’s) In this classic evaluation of play that has become a “must-read” for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or “man the player” through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come.

A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

Homo Ludens

Brilliant study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during 14th15th centuries explores the period's splendor and simplicity, courtesy and cruelty, religious, artistic, and practical life; much more. 14 illustrations. "

The Waning of the Middle Ages

ديناميكية اللعب في الحضارات و الثقافات الإنسانية /cيوهان هوتسينغا ؛ ترجمة صديق محمد جوهر

In the 16th century, Erasmus was one of the most celebrated figures in Europe - a man of such vast learning that both royalty and universities petitioned for his services. In this very readable biography, a noted scholar traces Erasmus’s youth, his years as an itinerant scholar, sojourns in England, France, Switzerland, and Italy, friendship with Sir Thomas More, and disputes with Martin Luther. The author also probes Erasmus’s mind and character and discusses his writings, including In Praise of Folly and his great translation of the New Testament.

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

José Gaos

El otono de la Edad Media es un retrato de la vida, el pensamiento y el arte durante los siglos XIV y XV en Francia y los Paises Bajos. Esta obra, publicada en 1927, ha conservado, a lo largo de los anos, toda su frescura y vigor y se ha convertido en un clasico sobre el tema. En estos estudios sobre la forma de la vida y del espiritu, Johan Huizinga nos ofrece un amplisimo y multicolor fresco de las postrimerias de la era medieval que permite la reconstruccion de la epoca y de sus motivos impulsores: la concepcion jerarquica de la sociedad, el ideal caballeresco, el sueno del heroismo, la imagen idilica de la existencia, la idea de la muerte, los tipos de religiosidad, la decadencia del simbolismo, la sensibilidad artistica, las formas de trato amoroso, la imagen y la palabra...

estudios sobre la forma de la vida y del espíritu durante los siglos XIV y XV en Francia y en los Países Bajos

El otoño de la Edad Media

"Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." —Washington Post Book World The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history—the Renaissance—but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being "old-fashioned" and "too literary" when The Waning of the Middle Ages was first published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition—softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced. This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected. "The advantages of the new translation are so many. . . . It is one of the greatest, as well as one of the most enthralling, historical classics of the twentieth century, and everyone will surely want to read it in the form that was obviously intended by the author." —Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books "A once pathbreaking piece of historical interpretation. . . . This new translation will no doubt bring Huizinga and his pioneering work back into the discussion of historical interpretation." —Rosamond McKitterick, New York Times Book Review

The Autumn of the Middle Ages

George Steiner

Vitor Dias Antunes

Nesta obra, Huizinga organiza e interpreta um dos aspectos fundamentais da cultura humana - o instinto do jogo. Ao ler este livro, damo-nos subitamente conta de como no cerne das diversas actividades humanas - do direito à ciência, do desporto à arte - está um dos fundamentais elementos da cultura humana, o instinto do jogo. Num ensaio filosófico já clássico, que trata de sociedades díspares, tanto geográfica como historicamente, o autor analisa a influência deste instinto na enformação das sociedades humanas, para concluir que a civilização 'não provém do jogo (...) tem origem no jogo e enquanto jogo, nunca deixando de o ser'.

Homo ludens: um estudo sobre o elemento lúdico da cultura

Beschouwing van de Nederlandse historicus (1872-1945) over de identiteit van de Republiek (1588-1795).

een schets

Nederlands beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw

De Mensch en de beschaving

een beschouwing over de kansen op herstel van onze beschaving

Geschonden wereld

Homo Ludens. Vom Ursprung der Kultur im Spiel.

Johan Huizinga was the most renowned Dutch historian of the twentieth century, and his work ranged from medieval art to mechanization in modern America. His influential book Autumntide of the Middle Ages is still considered one of the most perceptive and influential analyses of the late medieval period. Its wide-ranging discussion of the ritual, formalism, and spirituality of medieval society makes it a classic study of life, culture, and thought in fourteenth and fifteenth century France and the Low Countries. This new and unabridged English translation of the original text celebrates its centenary and captures the impact of Huizinga's significant piece of historical scholarship and literature. Illustrated in color throughout, over three-hundred works of art, illuminated manuscripts, and miniatures pertinent to Huizinga's discourse are included, as well as a complete bibliography of Huizinga's research and an updated introduction.

Autumntide of the Middle Ages

A Diagnosis of the Modern Distemper

In the Shadow of Tomorrow

The waning of the middle ages, a study of the forms of life, thought

Erasmus, by J. Huizinga

A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought and Art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth Centuries

Jesen srednjeg vijeka

Le Declin Du Moyen Age

Dertien artikelen en vier oraties van de beroemde historicus Johan Huizinga (1872-1945).

Johan Huizinga

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