Reflections on Play, Sport, and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781032480787 / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str.

Opis

This book represents a renewed general view of human play with an interdisciplinary methodology, encompassing philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and the history of play and behavioural analysis of playing.

Spis treści

Part I: The idea of play

 

Chapter 1: “Slow-moving” Philosophy of Play

Usefulness of Play before Philosophical Comprehension 

First Steps Toward Philosophy: Functionalism as a Key for Explanations of Human Play

Bibliography

 

Chapter 2: Principal Definability of Play

Introduction

Play and Games in the English Language

Reflection of Human Play in Different Languages in the 20^th-21^st Centuries

The Wittgensteinian Obstacle

Consideration of the Logical Relation between Play and Game

Bibliography

 

Chapter 3: Definition of Play as Escape

   Introduction

   Qualitative Content Analysis of Philosophical Ideas about Human Play

   Toward the Definition

   Bibliography

 

Chapter 4: Sport is Play Too

Introduction

Diversity of the Category of Sport in British Cultural Tradition

Is Physical Activity Necessary and Sufficient for a Definition of Sport?

Sport as Both Play and Game

Officialization and Unproductiveness as Necessary Characteristics of Sport

Bibliography

 

Part II: “Contemplation” of Play and Games Playing

Introduction to Part II

 

Chapter 5: Games’ Typologies 

Common and Unique in Games

Typologies of Games by Aims and Forms of Playing

The Analysis of Existing Approaches to Classifying Games

Principles of Elaboration of “nonlinear” Classification of Games and Sports

Three-measured Taxonomy of Games and Sports

 

Chapter 6: Ways Moving from Games to Sports

Introduction         

Crystallization

Invention

“Natural selection”

Bibliography

 

Chapter 7: Key Characteristics of an Invasive Game

Mutually Active Conflict between Sides

Perturbation and a Personal Space-time in Invasive Games

Bibliography

 

Part III: Play and Society

Introduction to Part III

 

Chapter 8. Social Person in Play

Introduction

"Being There": Kinds of Human Play in Different Behavioral Environments

Personal vs. Individual Play

Emergent Indeterminacy: Hidden Flows of Small Groups Playing

Wanted Suspense: Large Groups Playing

Bibliography        

 

Chapter 9. Masses in Play

Introduction

Play and Social Communication in Ancient Sacral Ritual

Play in Sacral Mysteries

Carnival as a Show-play

Festival vs. Carnival Play in the Grandstands

Bibliography

 

Chapter 10. Sports Spectators and Fans in Play

Introduction: Accepted Typologies of Sport Spectators

New Typology of Sport Spectators as “players”: Empirical Research

Bibliography

 

Chapter 11: Professional Sport in Symbiosis with Fans

Introduction

From play to Meta-sport

 ‘Sport is like play’

Professional Sport vs. Sport Show 

The Nature of ‘meta-play’

The Nature of ‘meta- sport’

Dialectics in the Transformations of Professional Sport

Bibliography

 

Afterword: Introduction to the Play Field Theory (PFT)

O autorze

Felix Lebed, PhD is Head of the M.Ed. degree program in the Physical Education Department at Kaye Academic College of Education, Israel.