Henning Eichberg

Questioning Play (eBook, PDF)

What play can tell us about social life

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134821549
• Artikelnr.: 45434494

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Cases of movement play
1. Soccer, crisis, and grace: how round is the Danish ball?
2. Wandering, winding, wondering: what is happening in the labyrinth?
Part II: Critical questions to some play-philosophical commonplaces
3. Colonial and relativistic approaches to the cultural anthropology of
play: do we need a definition of play?
4. Unproductive play? What is productivity?
5. Play, learning, and progress: but what about the elderly in play?
6. Innocent play, war games, playing with fire: what about dark play?
Part III: Play as diversity and question
7. Play, game, display, sport: how does language differentiate the
understanding of concepts?
8. Play and curiousness: what is the question?
Part IV: Socio-political dimensions of play
9. Folk sports, popular games: who is the folk, who are the people?
10. Play and acceleration: play as an opposite to alienation?