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Quotation by Johan Huizinga
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Homo Ludens Paladin Press (1970)In the Shadow of Tomorrow (1936)Life and Thought in America (1972)Men and Ideas (1948-1953, trans. 1959)Men and Ideas Paladin Press (1959)Related Subjects
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Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.
Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian. In the Shadow of Tomorrow, ch. 5 (1936).
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