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This volume presents a new theory of games which insists on games' unique value in human life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are an integral part of how we become mature, free people. Bridging aesthetics and practical reasoning, he gives an account of the special motivational structure involved in playing games. We can pursue goals, not for their own value, but for the sake of the struggle. Playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life, and the fact that we can engage in this motivational inversion lets us use games to experience forms of agency we might never have developed on our own. Games, then, are a special medium for communication.
This volume presents a new theory of games which insists on games' unique value in human life. C. Thi Nguyen argues that games are an integral part of how we become mature, free people. Bridging aesthetics and practical reasoning, he gives an account of the special motivational structure involved in playing games. We can pursue goals, not for their own value, but for the sake of the struggle. Playing games involves a motivational inversion from normal life, and the fact that we can engage in this motivational inversion lets us use games to experience forms of agency we might never have developed on our own. Games, then, are a special medium for communication.
Über den Autor
C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Chapter 1: Agency as art
- PART I: GAMES AND AGENCY
- Chapter 2: The possibility of striving play
- Chapter 3: Layers of agency
- Chapter 4: Games and autonomy
- PART II: AGENCY AND ART
- Chapter 5: The aesthetics of agency
- Chapter 6: Framed agency
- Chapter 7: The distance in the game
- PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- Chapter 8: Games as social transformation
- Chapter 9: Gamification and value capture
- Chapter 10: The value of striving
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
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Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
Jahrhundert: | Antike |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780197815656 |
ISBN-10: | 0197815650 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Nguyen, C. Thi |
Hersteller: |
Oxford University Press
OUP USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 230 x 155 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | C. Thi Nguyen |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.05.2025 |
Gewicht: | 0,36 kg |
Über den Autor
C. Thi Nguyen as of July 2020 is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. His research focuses on how social structures and technology can shape our rationality and our agency. He has published on trust, expertise, group agency, community art, cultural appropriation, aesthetic value, echo chambers, moral outrage porn, and games. He received his PhD from UCLA. Once, he was a food writer for the Los Angeles Times. He tweets at [...]
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Chapter 1: Agency as art
- PART I: GAMES AND AGENCY
- Chapter 2: The possibility of striving play
- Chapter 3: Layers of agency
- Chapter 4: Games and autonomy
- PART II: AGENCY AND ART
- Chapter 5: The aesthetics of agency
- Chapter 6: Framed agency
- Chapter 7: The distance in the game
- PART III: SOCIAL AND MORAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- Chapter 8: Games as social transformation
- Chapter 9: Gamification and value capture
- Chapter 10: The value of striving
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2025 |
---|---|
Fachbereich: | Allgemeines |
Genre: | Importe, Philosophie |
Jahrhundert: | Antike |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Thema: | Lexika |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780197815656 |
ISBN-10: | 0197815650 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Nguyen, C. Thi |
Hersteller: |
Oxford University Press
OUP USA |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 230 x 155 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | C. Thi Nguyen |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 22.05.2025 |
Gewicht: | 0,36 kg |
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