CMLT 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: 1896 Summer Olympics, Autotelic, Indulgence
10 Jan 2018
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Content: sociological understandings of play, the irenic potential of the ludic, formal characteristics of play, sociological understandings of play: Bernard suit: x is playing if and only if x has made a temporary allocation to autotelic [purposeful for oneself] activities of resources primarily committed to instrumental activities. Suits: playing a game is the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles. Rudolph feezell proposed 4 approaches of play: as behavior or activity: something that we can easily observe. Signs that play is about to commence are exhibited by both humans and animals. Mark c. carnes notes that during play animals learn the skills necessary to survive. He refers to darwin who notes that good play as that which promoted evolutionary progress-for human beings as well as animals. Good play advanced mankind; bad play hampered it. : as motive, attitude or state of mind: an activity engaged is as an end in itself.
