Play, Philosophy and Performance

ISBN-13: 9780367340667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str.

Malcolm MacLean; Wendy Russell; Emily Ryall

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction,  Part l:  Play and the Performance of Morality,  1. Do Toy Guns Kill People? Playing with Guns,  2. Analyzing Morality via the Philosophy of Play,  3. A Playful Approach to Cultivating Intellectual Virtues: Why So Serious?,  4. Ethical Dimensions of Play and Care: Reflections Based on Donald Winnicott’s Theory of Play and the Ethics of Care,  Part ll: Language and Play In/And ‘The Real’,  5. Language, Play, and Understanding: What Semantics Might Learn from Children,  6. Living on the Edge: Zhuangzi, Ludus, and 遊 (you),  7. Robert Pfaller and the Disappearance of Play in Contemporary Culture: Illusions without Subjects,  Part lll: Playful Aesthetics,  8. Notes on Playful Cinema and Performance: Stop Making Sense,  9. Childhood Ghosts with Boltanski and Benjamin,  10. The Complexity of Play: A Response to Guyer’s Analysis of Play in Schiller’s Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man,  11. How Computer Game Design Affects Moral Engagement: Mechanics Taking Over,  Part lV: Play’s Performative Praxis,  12. Unexpected Movements as Meaningful Expression in Play: Strange Twists of the Body,  13. Posthuman Interpretations of Mutual Play between a Human, Cat and Machine,  14. Time and Creativity in Survival Games: Bergson Plays with the Tao,  15. Digital Play as an Epistemic Experience