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CRC Press Play, Life and Imagination: Essays on Gender, Sex, Games and Self

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Play, Life and Imagination is a wide-ranging and deeply human exploration of play as one of the most powerful, misunderstood, and transformative forces in contemporary culture. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, literature, film, comics, and everyday life, David Seelow argues that play is not a distraction from serious thought but one of its most vital expressions: a way of making meaning, negotiating identity, and confronting the contradictions of modern life. Moving fluidly from childhood games to adult rituals, from carnival and comedy to superheroes, gender performance, sexuality, and power, Seelow traces how play shapes who we are and how we relate to one another. Influenced by thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, Bakhtin, and Huizinga, the essays examine play as both liberating and dangerous: a space of creativity, experimentation, and joy, but also a site where social norms, fantasies, and inequalities are rehearsed and contested. With chapters that address masculinity, spectatorship, erotic play, popular culture, and the ethics of imagination in the age of #MeToo, Play, Life and Imagination bridges the personal and the theoretical. Seelow weaves memoir, cultural critique, and close reading into a voice that is at once scholarly, reflective, and accessible. The result is a book that invites readers to rethink play not as something we outgrow, but as a lifelong practice that reveals our deepest values, anxieties, and desires. Intellectually rigorous yet warmly engaging, Play, Life and Imagination will appeal to scholars and students of cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, media studies, and education, as well as to general readers curious about why play continues to matter so profoundly in a world that often forgets how, and why, to play at all. At once reflective and provocative, the book challenges readers to reconsider seriousness itself, and to recognize play as a condition of ethical, creative, and social life.

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Brand: CRC Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0367623382
Category: Books > Subjects > Computing & Internet > Programming > Games
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 August 2026
Listed Since: 26 February 2026

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