The centrality of the Ludic on Human Formation: criticism of the theses of Johan Huizinga
Ontologia, Johan Huizinga, Formação Humana
This thesis accomplishes the task of investigating the ontological development of the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga’s literary work, mainly focusing on his defense of the centrality of the ludic in human formation. Having as a study object the criticism of the centrality of the ludic in human formation, the problem of the study was: how did the ontological presuppositions of the defense of the centrality of the ludic in the human formation were developed in the work that Johan Huizinga? To that end, and considering that it was developed from a bibliographical research having as an investigation method the historical-dialectical materialism, the general goal was to recognize how the ontological presuppositions in the work of Johan Huizinga were developed on his defense of the centrality of the ludic in human formation, and in this direction, the following and specific goals: (i) review and expose the assumptions of the idealistic ontology in Hegel and from the critique of Marx and Engels to German’s idealism, (ii) revise and expose the assumptions of the materialist ontology produced by Marx and Engels in the face of criticisms of German’s idealism, and finally, (iii) identify the development of the underlying ontology of the defense of the centrality of the ludic in human formation sustained by Johan Huizinga, especially in the work Homo Ludens – objectives that had theoretical mediation expansion in the literary work of José-Barata Moura. In this last one, specifically, (i) I described Johan Huizinga's theoretical and methodological assumptions and his founding conceptions of the History of Culture, (ii) I identified and analyzed Johan Huizinga's literary work in its development, considering its historical-cultural foundation and his defense around the ludic in human formation, (iii) I did a research and investigated the work Homo Ludens and aimed to unveil the ontological assumptions of the centrality of the ludic in human formation, and (iv) presented, in opposition to the ontological foundation of Johan Huizinga , the defense of the centrality of work in human formation.