Description
| - The notion of play is pervasive in contemporary philosophy. To mention but a few manifestations, Heidegger, Fink, Gadamer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Badiou, Benjamin, theory of performativity, critical theory and feminism deal with ethics and play from different perspectives. However, in spite of the overwhelming presence of the theme of play in the theories mentioned above, the ethical significance of play and the exact modalities of an ethics of play remain to be more fully investigated. If time, existence, language, social structures, nature and institutions are to be regarded as Spielraume, what ethical implications are entailed? How can one take play seriously, so as to contest seriousness without reducing ethics to a masquerade?
- The notion of play is pervasive in contemporary philosophy. To mention but a few manifestations, Heidegger, Fink, Gadamer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Badiou, Benjamin, theory of performativity, critical theory and feminism deal with ethics and play from different perspectives. However, in spite of the overwhelming presence of the theme of play in the theories mentioned above, the ethical significance of play and the exact modalities of an ethics of play remain to be more fully investigated. If time, existence, language, social structures, nature and institutions are to be regarded as Spielraume, what ethical implications are entailed? How can one take play seriously, so as to contest seriousness without reducing ethics to a masquerade? (en)
|