Gadamer's Ethics of Play

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1. A pluralist conception of play / Randolph Feezell -- 2. All the world's a stage : childhood and the play of being / John Wall -- 3. Playing with words : further comment on Suits' definition / Emily Ryall -- 4. Playing well : Wittgenstein's language-games and the ethics of discourse / David Egan -- 5. Gadamer and the game of dialectic in Plato's Gorgias / Barry Dixon -- 6. Gadamer and the game of understanding : dialogue-play and opening to the other / Monica Vilhauer -- 7. Language at play : games and the linguistic turn after Wittgenstein and Gadamer / Nuria Sara Miras Boronat -- 8. Whoever cannot give, also receives nothing : Nietzsche's playful spectator / Catherine Homan -- 9. Play and being in Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and nothingness / Rebecca Pitt -- 10. Passion play : play, free will and the sublime / Thomas Hackett -- 11. Playing in a Deleuzian playground / Stuart Lester -- 12. 'We sneak off to play what we want!' : Bakhtin's carnival and children's play / Maria Ã#x98;ksnes -- 13. What's play got to do with the information age? / Kevin Flint -- 14. Towards a spatial theory of playwork : what can Lefebvre offer as a response to playwork's inherent contradictions? / Wendy Russell -- 15. To play or to parent? : an analysis of the adult-child interaction in make-believe play / Peter Hopsicker and Chad Carlson -- 16. Game over : calling time on kidult accounts of masculinity / David Webster.