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Routledge Play in Philosophy and Social Thought - Routledge

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Explore the paradoxical nature of play through a bottom-up phenomenological approach in this philosophical examination from Routledge. This work examines the fundamental relationship between players and the games they engage with, posing essential questions about agency and the forces that shape human experience through play. The book investigates play across multiple dimensions-as craft, as rhythm, as a boundary between normality and otherness, and even as a spiritual or religious practice that exists between the self and the other. Rather than approaching play through welfare-political or educational frameworks alone, this volume delves into the deeper philosophical underpinnings that reveal what truly plays us when we play, offering readers a comprehensive exploration of how play functions as something larger than individual action and how it fundamentally shapes human consciousness and social interaction.

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Routledge publication offering a bottom-up phenomenological analysis of play as a philosophical concept.

Examines the paradoxical relationship between playing subjects and the games that make them players.

Explores play across multiple dimensions including craft, rhythm, normality, otherness, and spiritual experience.

Moves beyond welfare-political or educational approaches to investigate the deeper philosophical nature of play.

Investigates the boundary between self and other as expressed through play as a social and spiritual phenomenon.

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hardcover
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Amazon UK
Release Date
14 August 2018
Listed Since
06 May 2018

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