Philosophical Perspectives on Play

Introduction  Part 1: Playing at the limits  1. Exile and utopia as Liminal Play: A Cultural-Theoretical Approach (Mihai Spariosu)  2. Playing war - playing with fire
 Dark games (Henning Eichberg)  3. Games and evil (Carl Mildenberger)  4. Posthuman nature: Life beyond the playground (Stuart Lester)  Part 2: Play, aesthetics and performance  5. A disavowal of games (Chris Bateman)  6. Lessons in playing: Robert Morris' Bodyspacemotionthings 2009 as a biopolitical environment (Tim Stott)  7. Oasis of happiness: The play of the world and human existence. Eugene Fink's multidimensional concept of play (Nuria Sara Miras Boronat)  8. Homer and competitive play (Daniel A Dombrowski)  Part 3: Metaphysics and ontology  9. Homo Ludens in the 21st century: Towards an understanding of Caillois' paidia in sports (Imara Felkers, Ellen Mulder and Malcolm MacLean)  10. Locating rhythms: Improvised play in the built environment (Dani Abulhawa)  11. Weltentzug und weltzerfall (world-withdrawal and world-decay): Heidegger's notions of withdrawal from the world and the decays of worlds in the times of computer games (Mathias Fuchs)  12. The paradox of rules and freedom: Art and life in the simile of play (Damla Doemez)  Part 4: Ethics of work in play and play in work  13. Philosophy, play and ethics in education (Sandra Lynch)  14. Entangled in the midst of it: A diffractive expression of an ethics for playwork (Wendy Russell)  15. "Excess is the key": Community, flow and the play of control in the picture books of Thomas King (Helene Staveley)