Word: aestheticist
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...great attractions of theater for so many of its practitioners and adherents, of course, is exactly this idea of play and all its connotations of imagination, escape, and freedom. Its an appealing idea. Indeed, those writers that we might call aestheticists, from Alexander Pope all the way through Vladimir Nabokov, elevate the idea of play to one of the highest expressions of our humanity. Play, in the aestheticist's mind, becomes a representation of human independence precisely because it is not work; it is not essential. Unlike most animals, humans can choose to play instead of work; they can choose...
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