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Constitutes a great philosophical treatise on play and games Appeals to a potentially broad audience including those interested in thinking through globalisation today The magnum opus of an influential French-Greek intellectual whose contemporaries and influences include Derrida, Deleuze and Lefebvre Approaches philosophy in a systematic as well as fragmentary manner Anticipates the key term of contemporary Heideggerian scholarship (German Irre, French errance) and confronts it through play A French reprint of Le Jeu du Monde was published by Les Belles Lettres in January 2018 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 21st 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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"""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 world. Axelos 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"

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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 H lderlin and St phane Mallarm , he taught and researched at the Sorbonne, as well as at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes. 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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