Play and democracy : philosophical perspectives
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Play and democracy : philosophical perspectives
Routledge, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
It significantly furthers theoretical and philosophical understandings of the concept of play
It provides a valuable analysis of play as a factor of civic life and citizenship from a variety of philosophical perspectives
It extends, complements and supplements a small body of literature with broad inter- and trans-disciplinary relevance and links philosophical analyses of play to wider issues in philosophy and politics
It has an international authorship of established and emerging scholars
It will attract an inter-disciplinary international audience / readership.
Table of Contents
1. How Play Matters for Democracy, Part I: Play, Normativity and Contesting Democracy, 2. Theatre and its Discontents, 3. Democracy, Power and Powerlessness of Art, 4. Can Role-Playing be Wrong? An Analysis of the Normativity of Play from the Perspective of the Enactive Cognitive Science, Part II: Urban Spaces and Playful Activism, 5. On Unforeseen Constellations and Constant Flux: Dialectical Activism and Metamorphoses, 6. The City as Spielraum: Play, Aesthetic Experience and Politics in Urban Space, 7. Can I Join In? Playful Performance and Alternative Political Realities, 8. Velvet Carnival: Play and Embodied Reflexivity, Part III: Playful Artistic Performance as Resistance to Dominant Power, 9. The Gift of Silence: Towards an Anthropology of Jazz Improvisation as Neuro-Resistance, 10. !Viva el Juego! Play in Latin American Performance Art, 11. Life in Cinematic Bodies at Play: The Example of Daisies (1966), Part IV: Paradoxes of Play and Democracy in Education, 12. Schooling the New Sensibility: Communal Philosophical Dialogue, Play, and Social Democracy, 13. Play and the Pedagogical Apparatus, 14. Child's Play: Inadvertent Tactical Resistance and Unofficial Power, 15. Playful Democracy, Democratic Playfulness and Philosophical Dialogue(s): Reflections from Two Conference Ethnographers
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