Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it...(展开全部)

First published in 1930, Seven Types of Ambiguity has long been recognized as a landmark in the history of English literary criticism.Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to t...(展开全部)

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship is the newest incarnation of Garry Landreth's comprehensive text on creating therapeutic relationships with children through play. It details the Child-Centered Play Therapy model, which stresses the importance of understanding the child's world and perspective. This approach facilitates the play therapy process while allowing therapist...(展开全部)

How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can ov...(展开全部)

This is the first comprehensive study of the noh plays of Komparu Zenchiku, an actor, playwright, and theoretician of noh drama in fifteenth-century Japan. A renowned performer in his own time, Zenchiku was rediscovered in the modern period as the author of numerous treatises on his art, which he studied under the tutelage of his father-in-law Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443). Yet, Z...(展开全部)

作者：卡尔·施米特（Carl Schmitt，1888－1985），德国法学家、政治思想家，他以“决断论”的法学立场闻名，是实证主义法学、自由主义政治哲学的重要批评者。他被西方学界公认为“最后一位欧洲公法学家”，至今仍对人文知识界有重大影响。他的主要作品有《政治的概念》《政治的神学》《政治的浪漫派》《霍布斯国家学说中的利维坦》《大地的法》等。 译者：姜林静，德国海德堡大学德语文学博士，复旦大学外文学院德文系副教授，主要研究德语文学中的政治学与神学思想、德奥古典音乐与文学的交互关系、19至20世纪德语诗歌。译作有《什么是德意志音乐》《盼望：为了尚未完满的世界》，另著有《德语“音乐诗歌”的艺术》《沙仑的玫瑰》（合著）。

作者：卡尔·施米特（Carl Schmitt，1888－1985），德国法学家、政治思想家，他以“决断论”的法学立场闻名，是实证主义法学、自由主义政治哲学的重要批评者。他被西方学界公认为“最后一位欧洲公法学家”，至今仍对人文知识界有重大影响。他的主要作品有《政治的概念》《政治的神学》《政治的浪漫派》《霍布斯国家学说中的利维坦》《大地的法》等。 译者：姜林静，德国海德堡大学德语文学博士，复旦大学外文学院德文系副教授，主要研究德语文学中的政治学与神学思想、德奥古典音乐与文学的交互关系、19至20世纪德语诗歌。译作有《什么是德意志音乐》《盼望：为了尚未完满的世界》，另著有《德语“音乐诗歌”的艺术》《沙仑的玫瑰》（合著）。