Game of the World
1st Edition
Published on 8. March 2023
440 pages
978-1-4744-4908-3 (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.
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Kostas Axelos
The Game of the World
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04/2023
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Translators' 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 the Being in Becoming of the Fragmentary and Fragmented Totality of the Multidimensional and Open World
- III. God-Problem
- IV. Physis. The Cosmic World
- V. The Human in the World
- VI. World History
- VII. The World of Poetry and Art
- VIII. Being-Nothingness, Everything-Nothing, the Unworldly World
- IX. The Game of the World
- Notes
- Analytical Table
