MOVING BEYOND NEGATIVE VALUES
MOVING BEYOND NEGATIVE VALUES

Summary/Abstract: This paper tackles the issue of how we can go beyond modern negative values via game theory. We have concentrated our attention on those affirmative theories which have established an analogy between art and play, belonging to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schiller, Schopenhauer, Pierce, Spencer, Groos, Guyan and Freud. Huizinga’s sociological theory has been closely observed by focusing on his argumentation that play represents the emerging of the self, while its mature expression is revealed through game and that the entire culture may be regarded as the result of our games with words, feelings and values. Selected poetry of P. K. Page and BP Nichol is analyzed, revealing elements of imagination, spontaneity and subtlety, i.e., the very qualities of an aesthetically pure game.

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