Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stephen Kidd

Titel

Toys as Mimetic Objects. A Problem from Plato’s Laws

Ist Teil von

• Aisthesis (Florence, Italy), 2017-01, Vol.10 (1), p.97-105

Ort / Verlag

Firenze University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.