Autore
Kidd, Stephen

Titolo
Toys as Mimetic Objects. A Problem from Plato's Laws
Periodico
Aisthesis
Anno: 2017 - Volume: 10 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 97 - Pagina finale: 105

What is a toy? As objects of play, toys seem to be inextricably bound up with mimesis: a child plays ‘make believe’, for example, with a doll or toy cart. But as I will show, Plato has a very different conception of toys from the modern one which tends to conceive of play as essentially mimetic. Toys do not derive their pleasure from being mimetic objects; rather, they are essentially pleasure objects and as such only incidentally mirror the objects of a ‘serious’ or ‘real’ world.



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