Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay argues that a modern shift towards an institutionalisation of the division between play and seriousness is reflected in a conceptual division more generally between these two concepts. As the play-element is foundational to culture, and indeed to the preservation of life more generally, the implications of this conceptual divorce are not to be underestimated. When the once playful spheres of democratic politics, war and international relations morph into pure seriousness, barbarism and naked cruelty follow as natural consequences. Accordingly, I will criticise the impoverishment of a simplistic concept of play that sets itself in opposition to seriousness, whilst also criticisng the consequent development of a society that undergirds this conceptual separation.
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