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Johan Huizinga

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Theorist cited by Lasch who showed that when play element disappears from cultural forms, men turn to play to find diversion and sensation

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"As Huizinga has shown, it is precisely when the play element disappears from law, statecraft, and other cultural forms that men turn to play not to witness a dramatic reenactment of their common life but to find diversion and sensation. At that point, games and sport, far from taking themselves too "
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