The philosophy of play as life

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Bringing play to life and life to play : a vitalist line of enquiry / Stuart Lester -- Play as portal to awakening in the blithesome wanderings of Chuang Tzu / Phyllis Mazzocchi -- Life-as-play from East to West : a comparative analysis of play in Aurobindo and Schlick / Damla Dönmez -- Playing in the Web : new Babylon and the Internet / Amy Lee Ketchum -- Five millennia of player practices / Chris Bateman -- On the relationship between philosophy and game-playing / Yuanfan Huang and Emily Ryall -- Gags and games : Wittgenstein and his relation to jokes / Ramón del Castillo -- Staying with the in-between : arts practice as a form of thinking about play and everyday encounters in a public square / Hattie Coppard -- The role of competition in musical play / Erin Heisel -- The ambiguity of reality : towards an awareness of the significant role of play in higher arts / Imara Felkers -- Art as play : a philosophical comparison of adults' and children's art / Dominika Czakon and Natalia Anna Michna -- The artwork as a perpetual re-enactment / Ilinca Damian -- The flow of play among toddlers in kindergarten / Dag Nome -- Between utopia and arcadia : how the playground epitomizes visions of play, childhood and societal longings / Darijana Hahn -- Play against alienation? / Henning Eichberg -- Playing your self : modern rhetorics of play and subjectivity / Núria Sara Miras Boronat.