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It discusses how Caillois’s views shaped influential accounts such as Man and the Sacred and Man, Play, and Games, and compares his themes with Johan Huizinga’s interpretation of play in Homo Ludens. 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Henricks  \nThis article explores the contributions of Roger Caillois to the study of human play. The initial portion of the essay focuses on Caillois’s scholarly career as a response to the public events and intellectual movements of his time. The author showshow Caillois’s responses influenced the portraits of play that he developed in such important books as Man and the Sacred and Man, Play, and Games. The article then analyzes the themes Caillois developed in these writings and compares them to Johan Huizinga’s interpretation of play in Homo Ludens. In a final section, the article shows the continued pertinence of Caillois’s approach to contemporary scholarship and offers author’s own evaluation of this theory.  \nA half century has passed since Roger Caillois’s classic study of play, culture, and the human condition. First published in 1958 as Les Jeux et Les Hommesand then with an English translation in 1961, the book spans the concerns of many disciplines and fits neatly into none. Most prominently, perhaps, Man, Play, and Games is a kind of sociological or anthropological study, an attempt to categorize certain forms of play and to describe how these forms operate in societies. But traditional themes of history, religion, and art—of the changing character of civilization and the possibilities for human expression within that setting—abound. Even atthe time of its publication, Caillois’s account was what Everett Hughes describes as “an old-fashioned book, one in which a fugue is played upon a few simple themes elaborated by material from a great variety of cultures”(1962, 254). In this sense, the work is, as Hughes continues, a “speculation about gradual, universal evolution,” a look at how play forms have both responded to the qualities of societies and made possible their development.  \nClassic books sometimes occupy curious positions within the disciplines that honor them. Ideally, of course, the classics maintain this status because they are so filled with rich and complicated meanings that each generation profits from consulting them, and individuals learn something new at every  \n© 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois  \nrereading. More practically, academic traditions exalt themselves and motivate their members by holding aloft examples of what followers working within these traditions can accomplish if only they possess the right combinations of talent, skill, perseverance, and public awareness. And, it must be added, classic works are not infrequently books that people only claim to have read, or have read without diligence during their student days, or have consulted only for a few selected themes. In short, they are not read so much as used to validate the purported reader’s work.  \nMan, Play, and Games, I argue here, has this diminished legacy in the field of play studies. On the one hand, the book is remembered—as it should be—as a useful characterization of the nature of play, as a guide for distinguishing between games and the freer forms of play, and as a description of four different types of play. Play scholars widely recognize Caillois’s work as a response to Johan Huizinga’s more famous treatment of play in Homo Ludens and, at least in some regards, they see Caillois’s work as an improvement of Huizinga’s book. On the other hand, many of the more subtle and complicated themes of Caillois’s work—essentially challenges to rethink the character of play and to prevent its “corruption” in our modern world—have not been addressed fully by the play studies community.  \nMy purpose is to remember, reflect upon, and perhaps creatively develop some ofCaillois’sthoughts about play and games. In this light, Ihopein this article to make plain many of Caillois’s themes. 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