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The philosophy of play /

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 ke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ryall, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. A pluralist conception of play / Randolph 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 / Nuria 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 / Rebecca 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 Ã#x98;ksnes
  • 13. What's play got to do with the information age? / Kevin Flint
  • 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 and Chad Carlson
  • 16. Game over : calling time on kidult accounts of masculinity / David Webster.