Play, Philosophy and Performance (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Maclean, Malcolm; Ryall, Emily; Russell, Wendy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000345858
• Artikelnr.: 60752425

Autorenporträt

Malcolm MacLean is a historian whose research focusses on the cultural and social experience and identities associated with movement and sport, with a specific interest in colonial, imperial and decolonial relations and in sport-related political activism. He is a co-founder of the biennial international Philosophy at Play conferences, as well as a member of the Editorial College of The International Journal of the History of Sport and editorial boards of Sport in History¿ Journal of Sport History and Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies. His academic affiliations include Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, Australia, Honorary Research Fellow at De Montfort University, UK, and Senior Research Associate at the University of Gibraltar, Gibraltar. Wendy Russell is a researcher and educator on children's play and Visiting Fellow at the University of Gloucestershire, UK, where she developed and taught on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on children's play and playwork. Her research focuses on supporting children's right to play, particularly in terms of the politics of space, policy and ethics. She is a co-founder of the biennial international Philosophy at Play conferences and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Play. Emily Ryall is Reader in Applied Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is former Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association as well as a member of the executive committee for the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. She also sits on the editorial panel for the Journal for the Philosophy of Sport, and regularly provides editorial assistance to other sports related journals.

Inhaltsangabe

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 ¿ (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