The Game of the World

Kostas Axelos

Drawing on philosophies of gaming and play from Heraclitus and Plato through to Marx, Nietzsche and Heidegger, Kostas Axelos outlines an extraordinary, unique vision of our contemporary world. Originally published in 1969, The Game of the World brilliantly anticipates a twenty-first century in which ever-accelerating technological transformations coincide with a world at play and in play, at once fragmentary and totalised, disordered and hyper-organised. In the midst of this paradoxical and deranging becoming-planetary of the world, Axelos offers a sequence of profound meditations on play and playing, games and gaming, directing us towards new means of thinking and action that may enable us to face the world-historical challenges of our own present.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Translators’ Introduction
pp 1-26

Prelude
pp 27-30

Opening. The Great Powers and the Elementary Forces of the World
pp 31-110

I - Logos. The Language and Thought of Man and the World
pp 111-162

II - That. The Play of the Being in Becoming of the Fragmentary and Fragmented Totality of the Multidimensional and Open World
pp 163-228

III - God-Problem
pp 229-248

IV - Physis. The Cosmic World
pp 249-266

V - The Human in the World
pp 267-320

VI - World History
pp 321-360

VII - The World of Poetry and Art
pp 361-380

VIII - Being-Nothingness, Everything-Nothing, the Unworldly World
pp 381-400

IX - The Game of the World
pp 401-425

Notes
pp 426-428

Analytical Table
pp 429-432

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