The ambiguity of the freedom and purpose of play in modern German philosophy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486119 |
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| Authors | Seonghyun Kim, Seong-Hyun Kim (0000-0002-6522-4203, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-156 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Play (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-4937 • E-ISSN: 2159-4953 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21594937.2024.2355442 |
| OpenAlex | W4399631094 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Play is omnipresent, but its definition is controversial. In recent German philosophical discourse, it is rightly pointed out that play is ambiguous in the sense of having conflicting meanings. However, it is surprisingly marginalized that this ambiguity can be found already in modern German philosophy, such that one meaning of play is emphasized in some theoretical contexts and the opposite in others. In this context, I demonstrated the ambiguity of play in terms of its freedom and purpose in that tradition by discussing paradigmatic conceptions of play: Play is highlighted as free in Kant and as unfree in Gadamer (1); and as autotelic in Fink and as heterotelic in Adorno (2). This will contribute to the philosophical discussion of play and bridge it with the interdisciplinary one by implying that they share the same concern, the ambiguity of play
Ambiguity · Epistemology · German · German philosophy · Linguistics · Sociology · History · Philosophical Thought and Analysis · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Religion, Theology, and Education
| Highly cited | No |
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