I was not aware of either Peter or Johannes' works, but I certainly am now.
I will have to track down a copy of Homo Ludens, thanks for the info!

Tony

-----Original Message-----
From: agora--algonet.se [agora--algonet.se]
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:36 PM
To: <Address Masked>
Subject: Re: Culture of games


Hi Tony! I am afraid our book is too far to old to be useful nowadays!
But I met Peter the other day and we spoke about to write a new
version. (I don't know if you know who he is, he is one of the
Swedens most important Historians and a member of the Swedish
Academy, who award the Nobel Prize of Literature, to be known
tomorrow.
I am very inspirated by Johannes Huizinga, who wrote the book
"Homo Ludens" in the Fifties. His thesis was we are now in another
phase of Mankind, not Homo Faber or Homo Sapiens any more, but
Homo Ludens, a new kind of person, working in the imaginary and
challenging new frontiers.
I will see if I can convince some publishing house to publish a new
version of our book.
Regards
Ana