Author: Pat Kane
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447207114
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. The Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives. Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished. The Play Ethic seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, The Play Ethic is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without. ‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, The Times
Author: William A. Gleason
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804734349
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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This literary and cultural history of the rise of modern leisure shows how American writers from Henry David Thoreau to Zora Neale Hurston both responded to and helped shape19th- and early-20th-century ideas of work and play.
Author: Joseph W. Meeker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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With imagination and flair, the author also introduces the idea of a play ethic, as opposed to a work ethic, and demonstrates the importance of play as a necessary and desirable component of the comic spirit. The Comedy of Survival is a book for literary critics, environmentalists, human ecologists, philosophers, and anthropologists. General readers, too, will find much to ponder in the author's clear explication of how all of us might become better stewards of this, our home planet Earth.
Author: Helen Anne Molesworth
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271023342
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Examines the proliferation of new ways of making "art" in the 1960s by focusing on the changed organization of work in society at the time. Co-published with The Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name.
Author: Penelope Prentice
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815338864
Category : Didactic drama, English
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Hans Küng
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195122283
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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For anyone concerned about the world we are creating, this book, written by one of the most important living theologians, offers a cautionary look at the coming global society.
Author: Brian Sutton-Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044185
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--The ancient discourses of fate, power, communal identity, and frivolity and the modern discourses of progress, the imaginary, and the self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory
Author: Ronald Arthur Howard
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422121062
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This work focuses on one of ethics' most insidious problems: the inability to make clear and consistent choices in everyday life. The practical tools and techniques in this book can help readers design a set of personal standards, based on sound ethical reasoning, for reducing everyday compromises.
Author: Robert L. Simon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972202
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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This book is primarily concerned with some of the most important kinds of philosophical issues that arise in sport which are ethical or moral ones. It focuses on the nature of principles and values that should apply to sport.
Author: John Finnis
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 9780878404087
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Are we entitled to be confident that our moral judgements can be objective? Can they express insights into aspects of reality, rather than mere feelings, tastes, desires, decisions, upbringing, or conventions? Why must we consider some of our choices to be free, and how do our free choices matter? How far should our moral judgements be based on assessments of expected consequences? Can utilitarianism, and other consequentialist or proportionalist theories, be anything more than the rationalization of positions taken on other grounds? The main theme of this book is the challenge to ethics from philosophical scepticism and from contemporary forms of consequentialism. But in seeking to meet this challenge, the book develops a sustained philosophical argument about many of the central questions of ethics. It reviews classical positions, and challenges some long-influential interpretations of those positions. It also reviews and participates in some recent developments and controversies in Anglo-American ethical theory. The activity of ethical theorizing itself is shown to be a matter of free and intelligent decision, in pursuit of intelligible good; it thus provides a test-case for any ethical theory.
