Fink Eugene. Play as Symbol of the World And Other Writings

Transl. by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner. — Indiannapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. — 360 p. — ISBN10: 0253021057; ISBN13: 978-0253021052 — (Studies in Continental Thought)Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts to understand the world through the experience of play. He affirms the philosophical significance of play, why it is more than idle amusement, and reflects on the movement from "child's play" to "cosmic play." Well-known for its nontechnical, literary style, this skillful translation by Ian Alexander Moore and Christopher Turner invites engagement with Fink's philosophy of play and related writings on sports, festivals, and ancient cult practices.Translators' IntroductionOasis of Happiness: Thoughts toward an Ontology of Play (1957}Play as Symbol of the World (1960)Play as a Philosophical ProblemPlay as a Possible and Worthy Topic for Philosophy
The World-Significance of Human Play
Methodological Considerations
The Position of the Human Being in the Centauresque Metaphysics of the West
The World as Play? An Approach in the Appearance of the PlayworldThe Metaphysical Interpretation of PlayThe Non-Actual Character of Play
Play and the Other Regions of Human Life. Plato's Blending of Being and Nothing
Plato's Interpretation of Play by Way of the Mirror. His Critique of the Poets
The Lens of the Disenchanted. Critique of the Platonic Model of the Mirror
The Ontological Devaluation of Play at the Beginning of Metaphysics. The Problem of the SymbolThe Interpretation of Play in MythBasic Features of Mythical Cult-Play
The Cultic Sense-Image and Its Veiled World-Reference.Association with DaemonsCosmic Status of the Symbolism of Play—Ancient Belief
Cosmic Status of the Symbolism of Play—Ancient Belief in Daemons. The Enchantment of Masks
Sacred Technique, Cosmic Metaphor, Initiatory Enchantment. Transition to Cult-Play Contents
Cult-Play as a Dissembling of the World-Relation. Play of the Gods and Play of the World
Play and Consecration—Cult-Play and Religion. The Play of the Gods Is Not Itself Cult-Play
Nature "Full of Gods" in Myth, Empty of Gods in Late Culture. Critique of Religion on the Model of "Self-Alienation." The Question Concerning the Worldliness of Play Is neither Sacred nor ProfaneThe Worldliness of Human PlayPolysemy of the Concept "Worldly"
The Worldliness of Play—In Contrast to the Metaphysical and Mythological Interpretation
Play as the Ecstase of the Human Being toward the World and as the Proof of the Shining Back of the World into the Being That Is Open to the World. The World as a Game without a PlayerPlay and Celebration (1975)Additional TextsChild s Play (1959)
Play and Philosophy (1966)
The World-Significance of Play (1973)
Play and Cult (1972-1973)Fink's Notes on PlayThe Philosophical-Pedagogical Problem of Play, 1954
Sport Seminar on February 24,1961
Play and Sport (1962)Notes on "Play and Philosophy" (1966)
Notes on "The World-Significance of Play" (1973)