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 MIND 293 - Play as a Route to Insight, etc.
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Tina Golovanoff
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Posted - May 08 2007 :  1:04:18 PM  Show Profile
Ok...I realize that 17th-century novels are appreciated by some, but really—when reading On the Aesthetic Education of Man was I the only one who actually got pissed off at reading that ancient word salad??

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Kit Peterson
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Posted - May 08 2007 :  2:40:57 PM  Show Profile
No, you're not the only one. I felt dizzy after reading one chapter of that book. I even read a lot of Shakespeare, and that was a lot for me to handle. I agree that it would be nice if a modern translation were done. This might be an example though of how play has deteriorated in our society. Think about it, if one of the few books on play was written in the 17th century and there’s no mordern translation, then it may just be a sign that play has, within the last 100 years lost a lot of its power. Perhaps if a translation were made it would show that play is rising back up in importance in the eyes of the human race.

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Chris Wheeler
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Posted - May 09 2007 :  12:54:37 PM  Show Profile
Interesting point. One would hope that with such an important idea, such as defining play, one could find a more current source. Let’s face it, half of the problem we had in this class was trying to figure out what was still relevant in these changing times.

Does anyone have some good examples we could look into?
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Tom Trelogan
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Posted - May 09 2007 :  11:15:36 PM  Show Profile
Schiller’s book was written in 1795—i.e., near the very end of the eighteenth century, not during the seventeenth century—and the translation we read was pubished in 1954! None of this is exactly ancient.
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