The Game of the World by Kostas Axelos
In this philosophical treatment of play Kostas Axelos traces his thinking on the world deployed as play from Heraclitus through to the culmination of metaphysical philosophy with Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger.
"At the heart of Kostas Axelos's ambitious and pioneering system, this encyclopaedia of fragments has long exercised a powerful influence in French thought on play, game and worldAxelos could not have asked for more sympathetic, attentive and poetic translators in Clemens and Monz. His anglophone readers and interlocuters await." -Stuart Elden, University of Warwick
Kostas Axelos (1924–2010) was a Greek-French philosopher and translator. A specialist in Heraclitus, Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger, as well as in Friedrich Hölderlin and Stéphane Mallarmé, he taught and researched at the Sorbonne, as well as at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. The Game of the World is his magnum opus, and as yet only the third English translation from his vast and important body of work. Justin Clemens is Associate Professor in Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy and Australian art and literature. His recent books include What is Education? edited with A.J. Bartlett and The Afterlives of Georges Perec edited with Rowan Wilken. Hellmut Monz teaches at the School of Communication and Design at RMIT University, Vietnam. He made his literary debut with the hexalogy Hellmut Monz and Philosophia's Scream
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| ISBN 13 | 9781474449069 |
| ISBN 10 | 1474449069 |
| Title | The Game of the World |
| Author | Kostas Axelos |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2023-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 440 |
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