Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

In his book Les jeux et les hommes (Man, Play and Games), French sociologist and esteemed translator of Borges Roger Caillois analyzes human play and draws a distinction between games that emerge spontaneously, or paideia (from Greek pais, child), and games with clear rules, or ludus, from Latin, fun games, from which we get the word ludic. The lat

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