Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry

Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789811574344,9789811574351,9811574340,9811574359

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 9811574359
• ISBN 13:9789811574351
• Author: Vassiliki Rapti, Eric Gordon

This book establishes play as a mode of humanistic inquiry with a profound effect on art, culture and society. Play is treated as a dynamic and relational modality where relationships of all kinds are forged and inquisitive interdisciplinary engagement is embraced. Play cultivates reflection, connection, and creativity, offering new epistemological directions for the humanities. With examples from a range of disciplines including poetry, history, science, religion and media, this book treats play as an object of inquiry, but also as a mode of inquiry. The chapters, each focusing on a specific cultural phenomenon, do not simply put culture on display, they put culture in play, providing a playful lens through which to see the world. The reader is encouraged to read the chapters in this book out of order, allowing constructive collision between ideas, moments in history, and theoretical perspectives. The act of reading this book, like the project of the humanities itself, should be emergent, generative, and playful.

Table contents:

1. Playspace, Ethics & Engagement
2. Toward an Ethics of Homo Ludens
3. SPORT MATTERS: On Art, Social Artifice, and the Rules of the Game, or, the Politics of Sport
4. Pre-Texts: Press Play to Teach Anything
5. Work, Play, and Civic Engagement
6. Technoecologies: The Interplay of Space and Its Perception
7. Meaningful Inefficiencies: Incorporating Play into Civic Design
8. Playthings, Comedy & Laughter
9. “Let Us Laugh and Play”: Laughter in Greek Lyric Poetry
10. Ludic Music in Ancient Greek and Roman Theater
11. Did Christ Laugh? Umberto Eco’s Question and Saint John Chrysostom’s Response
12. Comedy, Physicality, and Ludic Dance Gestures: The Comic in Ballet and Tai Chi?
13. Toys, Childhood, and Material Culture in Byzantium
14. Language & Poetics of Play
15. “How to Catch a Falling Knife:” Poetic Play as the Practice of Negative Capability
16. The Ludic Impulse in Post-Postmodern Fiction
17. Games Translators Play in French-Canadian Theatre
18. Immigraντ Poetics: Play as Performativity of the Liminal Self
19. Play(Modes) & Performance as Transgression
20. Ludics as Transgression: From Surrealism to the Absurd to Pataphysics
21. “Don’t Be Mean” and Other Lessons from Children’s Plays of the Federal Theatre Project
22. The Republic of Childhood: Friedrich Froebel’s Kindergarten and Naturphilosophie
23. Oscillating Between Tag and Hopscotch: Theo Angelopoulos’ Playful Aesthetics

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