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By Henning Eichberg
ISBN-10: 1138682470
ISBN-13: 9781138682474
What is play? Why will we play? What can play train us approximately our existence as social beings? during this serious research into the importance of play, Henning Eichberg argues that via play we will ask questions on the realm, others and ourselves. taking part in a video game and asking a query are varieties of human perform which are essentially attached. This publication provides a practice-based philosophical method of realizing play that starts off with empirical examine, drawing on old, sociological and anthropological investigations of play within the actual global, from modern Danish football to warfare video games and folks dances. Its ten chapters discover themes reminiscent of:
- play as a convention of search
- playing, studying and progress
- the gentle and darkish facets of play
- playing video games, game and display
- folk activities, renowned video games, and social identity
- play below the stipulations of alienation.
From those explorations emerge a phenomenological method of figuring out play and its price in interrogating ourselves and our social worlds.
This booklet bargains a difficult contribution to the interdisciplinary box of the philosophy of play. will probably be interesting examining for any pupil or researcher drawn to social and cultural anthropology, phenomenology, and demanding sociology in addition to the ethics and philosophy of game, relaxation experiences, and the sociology of recreation.
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