Rationale: Playing the philosophy of play
Départ fictif
1. Playing Homo Ludens
2. The magic circle leaks
3. Chasse patate in no-no-land: The embodiment of Fink’s thoughts in Flanders Fields
4. The permeable character of playing
5. The spatiality of mimesis: Play, relocation, and the embodiment of a situated life
6. The hidden land: On the permeability of play in radically earthly anthropology
Biography
Imara Felkers is a philosopher whose work develops play as a mode of existential and phenomenological inquiry. By philosophising play, she advances a way of doing philosophy in which play functions as a methodological tool. Using autoethnographic and literary approaches, she explores how playful practices shape identity and meaning-making across the life course. She often develops her work in close collaboration with artists and students.
"Felkers proposes an intriguing combination of phenomenological research and autoethnography that results in a philosophical journey through the different ways we play and are played throughout our lives. It is a beautiful example of playful and lived philosophy that can inspire philosophers, playworkers, and artists to find their path to self-experimentation with concepts."
— Núria Sara Miras Boronat, University of Barcelona, Spain
"This publication uniquely combines a set of theoretical and methodological approaches to the understanding of philosophy of play in relation to the identities of humans in their ‘playful’ practices via the reflexivity of autoethnographic methods.’
— Professor Ros Jennings, University of Gloucestershire, UK
