Masking the Abject : A Genealogy of Play
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0739103075
ISBN-13
9780739103074
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 19th, 2002
Print length
140 Pages
Weight
331 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 15.50 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
History of Western philosophyPhilosophy: metaphysics & ontology
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This study traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in western metaphysics. It analyzes how the distinction between the serious and the playful developed, charting play's changing ontological status, and ethical and aesthetic dimensions, from the logocentric to the bacchanalian.
Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle. Mechthild Nagel''s innovative study demonstrates how play has served as a ''castaway'' in western philosophical thinking: It is considered to be repulsive and loathsome, yet also fascinating and desirable. The book illustrates how play ''succeeds'' and proliferates after Hegel—despite its denunciation by classical philosophers—entering Marxist, phenomenological, postmodern, and feminist discourses. This work provides the reader with a superb analyisis of how the distinction between the serious and the playful has developed over time, charting play''s changing ontological status, and ethical and aesthetic dimensions, from the logocentric to the bacchnalian.
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