...superabundance of life.39 Schiller's goal is to transform labor and to make it more like play.40 "Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being," declares Schiller, "and he is only fully a human being when he plays."4' Although this is a goal intended...

...existence'43 - and, in a different way, by Blake's great German contemporary, Schiller: 'man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being and he is only fully a human being when he plays'.44 But nowhere has it been more fully articulated and explored -...

...strengthens a limb. Consider also the well-known observation by Friedrich von Schiller: "man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays. This proposition, which at the moment may sound like a paradox ....

...stands between being ordered to whitewash a fence and allowing other boys—for a consideration—to whitewash that fence. Comparably, though we might...Spieltrieb, the play instinct, the urge toward esthetic pleasure, Spiel signifying game and likewise drama in German: Schauspiel (show-game), Trauerspiel (mourning-game...

...and it is with beauty only that he shall play . . . For, to mince matters no longer, man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays. (Schiller 1967, pp. 105-7) Schiller's assertion is expanded by Lukacs...

...homo sapiens and homo politicus with homo ludens: "For, to mince matters no longer, man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is onlyjully a human being when he plays" (xv, 9). This proposition would, according to him, be a paradox...

...of play, an expression now lost but recapturable: "For, to mince matters no longer, man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays. . . . [This proposition] was long ago alive and operative in the...

...beings to give full reign to their human potential. Hence Schiller's famous claim: "man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is onfy fulfy a human being when he plays" (15/107). Art is reconciliation, the junction of the up-to-now...

...truly human at all. In one of his best-known philosophical propositions he declares: [M |an only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he plays. (Fifteenth Letter, para. 9) The claim that Schiller is making here...

...voller Bedeutung des Worts Mensch ist, und er ist nur da gan^ Mensch, wo er spielt ' ['Man only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only fully a human being when he play f\ (AE: p. 106). Jung, however, much to the later irritation of Herbert...