《遊戲人》(Home L udens)一書是荷蘭著名文化史學家、語言學家胡伊青加(Johan Huizinga)晚年最具原創性的代表作。胡氏認為「遊戲」是人之存在與行為的根本屬性和範疇。他從歷史、文化、宗教、心理、語言等層面取徑「得出人是遊戲者」、「文明是在遊戲中并作為遊戲而產生和發展起來的」兩個驚人的結論,一反西方在人和人性理解上的理性主義傳統,極為強調人的遊戲本質與遊戲因素對於文明的重要性;加上作者趣味橫生的旁徵博引,使這部著作在西方的整個遊戲研究中別具一格,在今日讀來仍令人拍案叫絕。
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