TY - JOUR AU - Kidd, Stephen PY - 2017/07/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Toys as Mimetic Objects. A Problem from Plato’s Laws JF - Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico JA - aisthesis VL - 10 IS - 1 SE - Monographica DO - 10.13128/Aisthesis-20910 UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/920 SP - 97-105 AB - <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> ER -