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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Play in the Age of Goethe and Today -- Part I. Free Play -- CHAPTER ONE. Beauty and Erotic Play: Anacreontic Poetry’s Transformation of Aesthetic Philosophy -- CHAPTER TWO. Free Play in German Idealism and Poststructuralism -- Part II. Games of Chance -- CHAPTER THREE. “Mit dem Spiele spielen”: Lessing’s Play for Tolerance -- CHAPTER FOUR. Play with Memory and Its Topoi -- Part III. Children’s Play -- CHAPTER FIVE. Narcissus at Play: Goethe, Piaget, and the Passage from Egocentric to Social Play -- CHAPTER SIX. Playthings: Goethe’s Favorite Toys -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Kindergarten and the Pedagogy of Play in the German Educational Revolution -- Interlude -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Invective, Eulogy, Play: Jacobi’s Sock 1799 -- Part IV. The Play of Language -- CHAPTER NINE. Between Speaking and Listening: Jean Paul’s Wordplay -- CHAPTER TEN. Authorship, Translation, Play: Schleiermacher’s Metalangual Poetics -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Playing with Words in Early German Romanticism -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period (approximately 1770-1830). The eleven chapters illuminate critical developments in the philosophy, pedagogy, psychology, politics, and poetics of play as evident in the work of major authors of the period including Lessing, Goethe, Kant, Schiller, Pestalozzi, Jacobi, Tieck, Jean Paul, Schleiermacher, and Fröbel. While drawing on more recent theories of play by thinkers such as Jean Piaget, Donald Winnicott, Jost Trier, Gregory Bateson, Jacques Derrida, Thomas Henricks, and Patrick Jagoda, the volume shows the debates around play in German letters of this period to be far richer and more complex than previously thought, as well as more relevant for our current engagement with play. Indeed, modern debates about what constitutes good rather than bad practices of play can be traced to these foundational discourses. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press
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