The Phenomenology of Play

Steve Stakland is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the philosophy department at Northern Virginia Community College, USA.

List of Contributors
Preface: The Virtues of Eugen FInk
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Part I: Background and Foundation
1. Play In the World as Symbol for Play of the World, Christopher Turner
2. Fink’s Position within the Phenomenological Movement and the Origins of his Cosmology of Play, Giovanni Jan Giubilato
3. Fink’s Phenomenology and Ontology of Play and its Relation to Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics, Núria Sara Miras Boronat
4. Fink and Gadamer: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and the Aesthetics of Play, Stefano Marino
5. Fink and Heidegger on Cosmological and Ontological Play: A Confrontation, Ian Alexander Moore

Part II: History of Philosophy
6. The Last Temptation of Metaphysics: Fink’s Nietzsche, Dale Wilkerson
7. Fink, Schiller and Echoes of Classical German Philosophy, Susanne Schilz
8. What is the Problem that Fink Solved for Derrida and Deleuze in 1967? Hakhamanesh Zangeneh
9. Phantasy and Play in Husserl, Fink and Sartre, Daniel O’Shiel
10. Fink and Plotinus on Play, Emile Alexandrov

Part III: Application to Philosophical Issues
11. Music and Ontological Experience: Fink’s importance for our understanding of Music, Goetz Richter
12. The Relation of Play and Education in Fink: Human Play as an Analogical Path to Understanding Onto-Cosmology, Steve Stakland
13. "The desert grows"? On a remarkable silence in Fink's Oasis of Happiness, Holger Zaborowski
14. Holy Laughter: A Pentecostal Pneumatology of Play in Fink and Wariboko, Jason W. Alvis
15. Ontology of Play and the Ambivalence of Resilience, Alice Koubova
16. From Animal Rationale to Ens Cosmologicum: Fink on Animality, Catherine Homan
17. Politics as Social Gameplay? How we might Reconsider a Phenomenology of Play in Terms of Freedom and Responsibility, Annette Hilt

Part IV: Translations and Commentaries
18. World, Individuation, and Play: A Critical Introduction to Fink’s Conversations with Heidegger, Giovanni Jan Giubilato and Ian Alexander Moore
19. Two Conversations with Heidegger by Eugen Fink, edited by Giovanni Jan Giubilato and Ian Alexander Moore
20. Translator’s Introduction: Mask and Cothurnus, Christopher Turner
21. Mask and Cothurnus, by Eugen Fink, translated by Christopher Turner
22. Notes on a Translation: Fink’s Nietzsche’s Philosophy, Goetz Richter
23. Review of Fashion: Seductive Play, Chester Mlcek
24. Annotated Bibliography of all Fink English Translations, Anna Coli and Chester Mlcek


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Index