Dionysus Reborn

by Mihai I. Spariosu

Mihai Spariosu here explores the significance of the closely linked concepts of play and aestheticism in philosophical and scientific discourse since the end of the eighteenth century. Spariosu points out that since its birth in archaic and classical Hellenic thought the concept of play has always been subject to the influences of various rational and prerational sets of values. Spariosu maintains that there have been not one but two major modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801423279
• ISBN13: 9780801423277
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher