Description
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 scholars of play. Including specific chapters dedicated to children and play, and exploring the work of key thinkers such as Plato, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, Deleuze and Nietzsche, this book is invaluable reading for any advanced student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in education, playwork, leisure studies, applied ethics or the philosophy of sport.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. A Pluralist Conception of Play – Randolf Feezell 2. All the World’s A Stage: Childhood and the Play of Being – John Wall 3. Playing with Words: Further Comment on Suits’ Definition – Emily Ryall 4. Playing Well: Wittgenstein’s Language-Games and the Ethics of Discourse – David Egan 5. Gadamer and the Game of Dialectic in Plato’s Gorgias – Barry Dixon 6. Gadamer and the Game of Understanding: Dialogue-Play and Opening to the Other – Monica Vilhauer 7. Language at Play. Games and the Linguistic Turn after Wittgenstein and Gadamer – Núria Sara Miras Boronat 8. Whoever Cannot Give, Also Receives Nothing: Nietzsche’s Playful Spectator – Catherine Homan 9. Play and Being in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness – Beck Pitt 10. Passion Play: Play, Free Will and the Sublime – Thomas Hackett 11. Playing in a Deleuzian playground – Stuart Lester 12. ‘We Sneak off to Play What we Want!’ Bakhtin’s Carnival and Children’s Play – Maria Øksnes 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? – Wendy Russell 15. To Play or to Parent? An Analysis of the Adult-Child Interaction in Make-Believe Play – Peter Hopsicker & Chad Carlson 16. Game Over: Calling Time on Kidult Accounts of Masculinity – David Webster
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