Questioning Play: What Play Can Tell Us about Social Life

ISBN-13: 9780815357261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 284 str.

EICHBERG

Opis

What is play? Why do we play? What can play teach us about life? This critical investigation argues that through play we can ask important questions about the world, others and ourselves. It offers a practice-based philosophical approach to understanding play, with historical, sociological and anthropological investigations of play in the real world.  

Recenzje

"Questioning Play is questioning a phenomenon, which is a question itself and as such prone for doing philosophy of interrogation. Eichberg is practicing his own “bottom-up way of philosophy” and succeeds in demonstrating an immense empirical knowledge of play and games put together in a peculiar, differential, “phenomenological” way. Thereby, he leaves a legacy of far-reaching significance for further critical socio-cultural studies, as well as personal imprints of a curious character with much vitality (despite a ailing physical body in later years) and an adventurous courage resembling the zeal and daring of mountain climbers." - Ejgil Jespersen, idrottsforum.org (2017)

O autorze

Henning Eichberg is an historian, cultural sociologist, and philosopher. As Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern Denmark, he works in the Centre for Sports, Health and Civil Society at the Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics