Reading Huizinga - Softcover

Otterspeer, Willem

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9089641807 ISBN 13: 9789089641809

Verlag: Amsterdam University Press, 2010

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Book by Otterspeer Willem

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Willem Otterspeer's Reading Huizinga takes its own readers on a magical tour of the circumstances and qualities that can help to appreciate the mind and spirit of a man who wrote such enduring classics of the twentieth century as The Waning of the Middle Ages and Homo Ludens. With graceful succinctness this book guides those who explore it to an understanding of themost famous Dutch historian. Like its subject, it creates a portrait by assembling many small, often contrasting, details.[-]It aims not to arrive at conventional biography and even less at history of historiography, but rather at a more elusive essence--what makes great writing endure.[-]Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin, Harvard University

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Johan Huizinga, one of the founders of cultural history, ranks among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Published in the 1930s, his The Waning of the Middle Ages, Homo Ludens and Erasmus were immediately recognised as masterworks and widely translated. Perhaps the most influential is Huizinga's study of the formative role of play in human culture in the celebrated Homo Ludens. This engaging study by the renowned Dutch scholar Willem Otterspeer shows the same hallmark passion with which Huizinga immersed himself in history. For Huizinga, philology was the mother of all interpretative endeavour, the master skill from which all branches of humanities originate and to which they all ultimately return. Reading and writing were both part of a collective ritual that channeled human passion into beautiful forms, while passion, and how to master it, remained the fundamental fact of human life. Throughout this powerful analysis of Huizinga's oeuvre, Otterspeer remains faithful to his main philosophical tenets, in which contrast and harmony, memory and desire, are the warp and weft of his work. And again, this is precisely what Otterspeer does. Reading and writing, passion and detachment, method and mysticism are here combined in a way that would have delighted Huizinga himself.

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• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 9089641807
• ISBN 13: 9789089641809
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264