@article{Kidd_2017, title={Toys as Mimetic Objects. A Problem from Plato’s Laws}, volume={10}, url={https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/920}, DOI={10.13128/Aisthesis-20910}, abstractNote={<p>What is a toy? As objects of play, toys seem to be inextricably bound up with mimesis: a child plays ‘make believe’, for example, with a doll or toy cart. But as I will show, Plato has a very different conception of toys from the modern one which tends to conceive of play as essentially mimetic. Toys do not derive their pleasure from being mimetic objects; rather, they are essentially pleasure objects and as such only incidentally mirror the objects of a ‘serious’ or ‘real’ world.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico}, author={Kidd, Stephen}, year={2017}, month={Jul.}, pages={97–105} }