ABSTRACT
Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play. It showcases the most innovative, interdisciplinary work in the rapidly developing field of Play Studies.
How we play, and the relation of play to the human condition, is becoming increasingly recognised as a field of scholarly inquiry as well as a significant element of social practice, public policy and socio-cultural understanding. Drawing on approaches ranging through morality and ethics, language and the nature of reality, aesthetics, digital culture and gaming, and written by an international group of emerging and established scholars, this book examines how our performance at play describes, shapes and influences our performance as human beings.
This is essential reading for anybody with an interest in leisure, education, childhood, gaming, the arts, playwork or many branches of philosophical enquiry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Play and the performance of morality
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
Ethical dimensions of play and care
part II|42 pages
Language and play in/and ‘the real’
chapter Chapter 5|14 pages
Language, play, and understanding
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
Robert Pfaller and the disappearance of play in contemporary culture
part III|53 pages
Playful aesthetics
chapter Chapter 10|14 pages
The complexity of play
part IV|61 pages
Play’s performative praxis