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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Emily Ryall (University of Gloucestershire, UK) , Wendy Russell , Malcolm MacLeanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.317kg ISBN: 9781138833876ISBN 10: 1138833878 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 12 September 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Pluralist Conception of Play 2. All the World’s A Stage: Childhood and the Play of Being 3. Playing with Words: Further Comment on Suits’ Definition 4. Playing Well: Wittgenstein’s Language-Games and the Ethics of Discourse 5. Gadamer and the Game of Dialectic in Plato’s Gorgias 6. Gadamer and the Game of Understanding: Dialogue-Play and Opening to the Ot 7. Language at Play. Games and the Linguistic Turn after Wittgenstein and Gadamer 8. Whoever Cannot Give, Also Receives Nothing: Nietzsche’s Playful Spectator 9. Play and Being in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness 10. Passion Play: Play, Free Will and the Sublime 11. Playing in a Deleuzian playground 12. ‘We Sneak off to Play What we Want!’ Bakhtin’s Carnival and Children’s Play 13. What’s Play Got to Do with the Information Age? 14. Towards a Spatial Theory of Playwork: What Can Lefebvre Offer as a Response to Playwork’s Inherent Contradictions? 15. To Play or to Parent? An Analysis of the Adult-Child Interaction in Make-Believe Play 16. Game Over: Calling Time on Kidult Accounts of MasculinityReviewsI am sure that many other scholars and practitioners of play may be enchanted by reading here and there in this much welcome and highly commendable, and recommendable, work of play and play of work. The Philosophy at Play conference organizers and book editors, Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell, and Malcolm Maclean deserve high praise in deed for their great efforts in reviving play. - Ejgil Jespersen, Jozef Pilsudski University of Physical Education, idrottsforum.org (...) I am sure that many other scholars and practitioners of play may be enchanted by reading here and there in this much welcome and highly commendable, and recommendable work of play and play of work. The Philosophy at Play conference organizers and book editors, Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell, and Malcolm Maclean deserve high praise indeed for their great efforts in reviving play. - Ejgil Jespersen, Department of Health Sciences (...) I am sure that many other scholars and practitioners of play may be enchanted by reading here and there in this much welcome and highly commendable, and recommendable work of play and play of work. The Philosophy at Play conference organizers and book editors, Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell, and Malcolm Maclean deserve high praise indeed for their great efforts in reviving play. - Ejgil Jespersen, Department of Health Sciences Author InformationEmily Ryall is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. Her main area of expertise is in the philosophy of sport, in addition to an interest in broader ethical and conceptual issues. She is on the editorial board of the Journal for the Philosophy of Sport and has published work in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections as well as sole authored books. Wendy Russell is Senior Lecturer in Play and Playwork at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has over 35 years experience as a playworker, specifically in development, research, education and training. Her research interests focus on play, childhood, space and politics and she is particularly interested in the dialectics of adult involvement in children’s play. Malcolm MacLean is Associate Dean (Quality and Standards) and teaches in the Faculty of Applied Science at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. His research work explores cultural politics, sport as a form of body and movement culture and the political economy of knowledge production in contemporary higher education. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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