A01=Mechthild Nagel
Author_Mechthild Nagel
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- ISBN 9780739103074
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 155 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Masking the Abject traces the beginnings of the malediction of play in Western metaphysics to Aristotle. Mechthild Nagel's innovative study demonstrates how play has served as a 'castaway' in western philosophical thinking: It is considered to be repulsive and loathsome, yet also fascinating and desirable. The book illustrates how play 'succeeds' and proliferates after Hegel—despite its denunciation by classical philosophers—entering Marxist, phenomenological, postmodern, and feminist discourses. This work provides the reader with a superb analyisis of how the distinction between the serious and the playful has developed over time, charting play's changing ontological status, and ethical and aesthetic dimensions, from the logocentric to the bacchnalian.
Mechthild Nagel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York, Courtland. She is coeditor of Race, Class, and Community Value (2000).
