Play as the System of Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3206549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kostas Axelos (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3684210 |
| OpenAlex | W2331619074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Let us begin abruptly with two quotations. One is from Marx who writes in Capital that capitalist system prevents worker from enjoying his work of his own physical and mental forces. The other quotation is from Heidegger who writes in Onto-theological nature of metaphysics [Identity and Difference]: the essence of Being is Play in itself. These two quotations are not all isolated, infrequent or arbitrary. Again in Capital, Marx writes, letting word play remain playful: at same time that routine work is an ultimate attack on nervous system, it oppresses varied of muscles and confiscates all free activity, physical and mental. On other hand, in The Principle of Reason Heidegger asks: must we think about Being ... by beginning with essence of play? Marx thinks that alienation and exploitation prevent worker from developing his activity as play. The desired suppression of capitalism would permit man's multiple activity to manifest itself in and as play. Hence distinction between work (necessary) and (free) would be abolished. Marx did not pursue this inspiration thoroughly. Heidegger thought that constitutes essence of Being which can be conceived from ground of play, but not vice versa. This was also a fleeting inspiration. Heidegger did not emphasize it, did not develop all its consequences. In fact, he seems to have abandoned it. Marx, on ontological horizon, thinks ontico-(ontologically). He thinks about man's work as production and techne thanks to which auto-production of world is achieved. It is this practical world-making work which could become play. Heidegger, taken with ontic, thinks ontologico-(ontically). He thinks about meaning of Being which has been forgotten by man. Since Being and man's being are interrelated, it could be that meaning of Being lies in Play. Marx and Heidegger, with Nietzsche situated between them as that modern thinker about influenced by Heraclitus, try to go beyond philosophy and metaphysics. One could call their thought metaphilosophical in sense that it doesn't make World or Being dependent on a transcendent ideal principle, source of True, Good, and Beautiful. But how and where do we encounter philosophy of which goes
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |