Author Description

A Pluralist Conception Of Play / Randolph Feezell -- All The World's A Stage: Childhood And The Play Of Being / John Wall -- Playing With Words: Further Comment On Suits' Definition / Emily Ryall -- Playing Well: Wittgenstein's Language-games And The Ethics Of Discourse / David Egan -- Gadamer And The Game Of Dialectic In Plato's Gorgias / Barry Dixon -- Gadamer And The Game Of Understanding: Dialogue-play And Opening To The Other / Monica Vilhauer -- Language At Play: Games And The Linguistic Turn After Wittgenstein And Gadamer / Núria Sara Miras Boronat -- Whoever Cannot Give, Also Receives Nothing: Nietzsche's Playful Spectator / Catherine Homan -- Play And Being In Jean-paul Sartre's Being And Nothingness / Rebecca Pitt -- Passion Play: Play, Free Will And The Sublime / Thomas Hackett -- Playing In A Deleuzian Playground / Stuart Lester -- 'we Sneak Off To Play What We Want!' Bakhtin's Carnival And Children's Play / Maria Øksnes -- What's Play Got To Do With The Information Age? / Kevin Flint -- Towards A Spatial Theory Of Playwork: What Can Lefebvre Offer As A Response To Playwork's Inherent Contradictions? / Wendy Russell -- To Play Or To Parent? An Analysis Of The Adult-child Interaction In Make-believe Play / Peter Hopsicker And Chad Carlson -- Game Over: Calling Time On Kidult Accounts Of Masculinity / David Webster. Edited By Emily Ryall, Wendy Russell And Malcolm Maclean. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.