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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maclean, Malcolm.

Russell, Wendy.

Ryall, Emily.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play (Philosophy).

Play--Social aspects.

Play.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-26990-8

0-203-10942-2

1-299-46920-5

1-136-26991-6

9780203109427

OCLC:

840417478