
The Game of the World
Kostas Axelos(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
438 pages
978-1-4744-4907-6 (ISBN)
Description
Kostas Axelos traces his thinking on the world deployed as play from Heraclitus through to the culmination of metaphysical philosophy with Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger.
Originally published in 1969, Le Jeu du Monde, conceives of the dawn of the 21st-century in which technological transformations coincide with an increased world at play. Are we continually falling when we are continually scrolling? Are we homeless on our homepages and playless at our PlayStations? Axelos demands a future thinking of fragmentary wholeness where humans - global players and worldwide gamers of planetary and wordless worlds - have yet to learn to play the play of the world.
Originally published in 1969, Le Jeu du Monde, conceives of the dawn of the 21st-century in which technological transformations coincide with an increased world at play. Are we continually falling when we are continually scrolling? Are we homeless on our homepages and playless at our PlayStations? Axelos demands a future thinking of fragmentary wholeness where humans - global players and worldwide gamers of planetary and wordless worlds - have yet to learn to play the play of the world.
Reviews / Votes
At the heart of Kostas Axelos's ambitious and pioneering system, this encyclopaedia of fragments has long exercised a powerful influence in French thought on play, game and world. Axelos could not have asked for more sympathetic, attentive and poetic translators in Clemens and Monz. His anglophone readers and interlocutors await. * Stuart Elden, University of Warwick *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
885 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4907-6 (9781474449076)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Kostas Axelos (1924-2010) was a Greek-French philosopher and translator. A specialist in Heraclitus, Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger, as well as in Friedrich Hoelderlin and Stephane Mallarme, he taught and researched at the Sorbonne, as well as at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. The Game of the World is his magnum opus, and as yet only the third English translation from his vast and important body of work. Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken. Hellmut Monz teaches at the School of Communication and Design at RMIT University, Vietnam. He made his literary debut with the hexalogy Hellmut Monz and Philosophia's Scream
Author
Translation
Associate Professor in Culture and CommunicationUniversity of Melbourne
School of Communication and Design at RMIT University, Vietnam
Content
Translator's Introduction
Prelude
Opening. The Great Powers and the Elementary Forces of the World
I. Logos. The Language and Thought of Man and the World
II. That. The Play of Being in Becoming of the Fragmentary and Fragmented Totality of the Multidimensional and Open World
III. God-Problem
IV. Physis. The Cosmic World
V. Human in the World
VI. World History
VII. The World of Poetry and Art
VIII. Being-Nothingness, Everything-Nothing, the Unwordly World
IX. The Game of the World
Notes
Analytical table
Prelude
Opening. The Great Powers and the Elementary Forces of the World
I. Logos. The Language and Thought of Man and the World
II. That. The Play of Being in Becoming of the Fragmentary and Fragmented Totality of the Multidimensional and Open World
III. God-Problem
IV. Physis. The Cosmic World
V. Human in the World
VI. World History
VII. The World of Poetry and Art
VIII. Being-Nothingness, Everything-Nothing, the Unwordly World
IX. The Game of the World
Notes
Analytical table