Playful time: Sketches for a phenomenological anthropology on play
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Temporality, Husserl, anthropology, play, phenomenologyAbstract
This paper offers a phenomenological description of playful time as the genesis of human play. Husserl’s phenomenology of temporality provides a comprehensive and defining framework for understanding playful time through four essential dimensions, which are presented in the order followed in this text. The first part addresses the extraordinary condition of playful time; the second explores its ritual and festive qualities; and the third and fourth sections examine its free and imaginary nature. Playful time exhibits the anthropological unity of existential spheres such as work, and value, often excluded from play in anthropological accounts, while also highlighting the boundary between animal and human play as a site of intersection.
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