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Archaeology of Play: The Re-Discovery of Platonic-Aristotelian
Tripartivism in Interdisciplinary Discourses proposes that play's
antithesis is not seriousness but rather one-dimensionality. This
book argues that the rediscovery of Platonic-Aristotelian
tripartivism lends to a more expansive appreciation of play in
terms of three rhetorical registers-namely, skhole, agon, and
paidia. Scholastic play resides in leisure and contemplation.
Agonistics is realmed in competition, contests, and power-play,
while paidiatics is expressed in lowly ruses, trickeries,
recreation, and amusement of the low-bred and the subaltern. By
subjecting play to the tripartite lens, Archaeology of Play
highlights vital surpluses and lacunae in the treatment of the
subject matter and therefore yields a refreshing, re-politicized
understanding of play dynamics in the different fields of human
endeavor. Furthermore, Bourdieu's and Ranciere's lusory discourses
redeem play from the pitfalls of triadic over-schematization by
thinking beyond tripartivism. The lively interlocution with other
play theorists-Pieper, Kant, Schiller, Marcuse, Gadamer, Veblen,
Arendt, Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Bakhtin, de Certeau, among
others-adds substance to the mix where play becomes a critical
resource for politics, aesthetics, and the democratic reordering of
sociality.
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