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Titolo: |
The philosophy of play / / edited by Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell and Malcolm MacLean
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Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
Disciplina: | 128 |
Soggetto topico: | Play (Philosophy) |
Play - Social aspects | |
Altri autori: |
MacleanMalcolm
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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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The philosophy of play ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-26990-8 |
0-203-10942-2 | |
1-299-46920-5 | |
1-136-26991-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779557003321 |
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