Being played
Subtitle: Gadamer and philosophy's hidden dynamic
By: Jeremy Sampson, University of Chichester, UK
Contributors: Simms, Karl, writer of foreword
Series: Series in philosophy; Vernon series in philosophy
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wilmington, Delaware
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781622736294
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Play (Philosophy)
Description: "Are we being played? Is our understanding of the traditionally fixed and static concepts of philosophy based on an oversimplification? This book explores some of the theories of the self since Descartes, together with the rationalism and the empiricism that sustain these ideas, and draws some startling conclusions using Gadamer's philosophical study of play as its starting point. Gadamer's ludic theory, Sampson argues, reveals a dynamic of play that exists at the deepest level of philosophy. It is this dynamic that could provide a solution in relation to the Gadamer/Habermas hermeneutics debate and the Gadamer/Derrida relativism debate, together with a theory of totality."--
Notes: Foreword written by Karl Simms.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-234) and index.