The philosophy of play / / edited by Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell and Malcolm MacLean

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821890803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-26990-8; 0-203-10942-2; 1-299-46920-5; 1-136-26991-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MacleanMalcolm; RussellWendy; RyallEmily
• Disciplina: 128
• Soggetti: Play (Philosophy); Play - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Philosophy of Play; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 A pluralist conception of play; 2 All the world's a stage: childhood and the play of being; 3 Playing with words: further comment on Suits' definition; 4 Playing well: Wittgenstein's language-games and the ethics of discourse; 5 Gadamer and the game of dialectic in Plato's Gorgias; 6 Gadamer and the game of understanding: dialogue-play and opening to the other; 7 Language at play: games and the linguistic turn after Wittgenstein and Gadamer; 8 Whoever cannot give, also receives nothing: Nietzsche's playful spectator9 Play and being in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness; 10 Passion play: play, free will and the sublime; 11 Playing in a Deleuzian playground; 12 'We sneak off to play what we want!' Bakhtin's carnival and children's play; 13 What's play got to do with the information age?; 14 Towards a spatial theory of playwork: what can Lefebvre offer as a response to playwork's inherent contradictions?; 15 To play or to parent? An analysis of the adult-child interaction in ; make-believe play; 16 Game over: calling time on kidult accounts of masculinityIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Play is a vital component of the social life and well-being of both children and adults. This book examines the concept of play and considers a variety of the related philosophical issues. It also includes meta-analyses from a range of philosophers and theorists, as well as an exploration of some key applied ethical considerations. The main objective of The Philosophy of Play is to provide a richer understanding of the concept and nature of play and its relation to human life and values, and to build disciplinary and paradigmatic bridges between scholars of philosophy and sc