Play and Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367641276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 264 str.

Alice Koubová; Petr Urban; Wendy Russell

Opis

This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research. It builds new paradigmatic bridges between philosophical enquiry and fields of application across the arts, political activism, children’s play, education and political science.

Spis treści

1. How Play Matters for Democracy,  Part I: Play, Normativity and Contesting Democracy,  2. Theatre and its Discontents,  3. Democracy, Power and Powerlessness of Art,  4. Can Role-Playing be Wrong? An Analysis of the Normativity of Play from the Perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science,  Part II: Urban Spaces and Playful Activism,  5. On Unforeseen Constellations and Constant Flux: Dialectical Activism and Metamorphoses,  6. The City as Spielraum: Play, Aesthetic Experience and Politics in Urban Space,  7. Can I Join In? Playful Performance and Alternative Political Realities,  8. Velvet Carnival: Play and Embodied Reflexivity,  Part III: Playful Artistic Performance as Resistance to Dominant Power,  9. The Gift of Silence: Towards an Anthropology of Jazz Improvisation as Neuro-Resistance,  10. ¡Viva el Juego! Play in Latin American Performance Art,  11. Life in Cinematic Bodies at Play: The Example of Daisies (1966),  Part IV: Paradoxes of Play and Democracy in Education,  12. Schooling the New Sensibility: Communal Philosophical Dialogue, Play, and Social Democracy,  13. Play and the Pedagogical Apparatus,  14. Child’s Play: Inadvertent Tactical Resistance and Unofficial Power,  15. Playful Democracy, Democratic Playfulness and Philosophical Dialogue(s): Reflections from Two Conference Ethnographers