Gods and Games: Toward a Theology of Play (Colophon Bks.)
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A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of playGods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0060903066
ISBN13:9780060903060
Release Date:April 1974
Publisher:Harper & Row
Length:209 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
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Learn to play like a grown up!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
In this marvellous book (it's a scandal that it's not in print) Dr Miller reveals how the idea of games and play has penetrated most academic disciplines to some extent. He goes on to show us that being at play is the only way to be, whether a god in a myth or a mortal practicing ones religion. All of this slowly steers us toward a mighty conclusion whereby Dr Miller reveals the four pillars of a [his] theology of play: non-seriousness is the highest seriousness, fiction is the highest truth, change is the highest stability, and purposeless is the highest purpose. This isn't a self-help book but a book of ideas, one that is tailor-made for anyone who might be taking themselves and their quest for meaning too seriously, as I have. Through it you too may find the courage to reorient your thinking and start playing with those archetypes, myths, images, and symbols that you love so much instead of just reading about them. If you're lucky, through Dr Miller's descriptions of the idea of play you'll learn to break all the rules and thus create something meaningless, which you'll then understand is the only thing that can mean anything.
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