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LEGO and Philosophy


LEGO and Philosophy

Constructing Reality Brick By Brick
The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series 1. Aufl.

von: William Irwin, Roy T. Cook, Sondra Bacharach

12,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 13.06.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781119193982
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<p>How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award winning series of videogames, hundreds of books, magazines, and comics, a team-building workshop program for businesses and much, much more.<br /><br /></p> <ul> <li>Dives into the many philosophical ideas raised by LEGO bricks and the global multimedia phenomenon they have created</li> <li>Tackles metaphysical, logical, moral, and conceptual issues in a series of fascinating and stimulating essays</li> <li>Introduces key areas of philosophy through topics such as creativity and play, conformity and autonomy, consumption and culture, authenticity and identity, architecture, mathematics, intellectual property, business and environmental ethics</li> <li>Written by a global group of esteemed philosophers and LEGO fans</li> <li>A lively philosophical discussion of bricks, minifigures, and the LEGO world that will appeal to LEGO fans and armchair philosophers alike</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors ix</p> <p>Introduction: Play Well, Philosophize Well! 1<br /><i>Sondra Bacharach and Roy T. Cook</i></p> <p><b>Part I LEGO® and Creativity 5</b></p> <p>1 Constructing Creativity 7<br /><i>Mary Beth Willard</i></p> <p>2 Building Blocks of Thought: LEGO® and the Philosophy of Play 17<br /><i>Tyler Shores</i></p> <p>3 LEGO® Formalism in Architecture 27<br /><i>Saul Fisher</i></p> <p>4 “That Was My Idea!”: LEGO® Ideas and Intellectual Property 39<br /><i>Michael Gettings</i></p> <p>Part II LEGO®, Ethics, and Rules 49</p> <p>5 “You Know the Rules!” What’s Wrong with The Man Upstairs? 51<br /><i>Jon Robson</i></p> <p>6 Searching for “The Special”: The LEGO® Movie and the Value of (LEGO®) Persons 59<br /><i>Alexander Quanbeck</i></p> <p>7 LEGO® and the Social Blocks of Autonomy 69<br /><i>Eric Chelstrom</i></p> <p>8 Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and LEGO® Toys 79<br /><i>Ellen Miller</i></p> <p><b>Part III LEGO® and Identity 89</b></p> <p>9 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic: The LEGO® Minifigure and Race 91<br /><i>Roy T. Cook</i></p> <p>10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! Does LEGO® Construct Gender Stereotypes? 103<br /><i>Rebecca Gutwald</i></p> <p>11 Representation in Plastic and Marketing: The Significance of the LEGO® Women Scientists 113<br /><i>Rhiannon Grant and Ruth Wainman</i></p> <p>12 Real Signature Figures: LEGO® Minifigures and the Human Individual 123<br /><i>Robert M. Mentyka</i></p> <p><b>Part IV LEGO®, Consumption, and Culture 133</b></p> <p>13 LEGO® Values: Image and Reality 135<br /><i>Sondra Bacharach and Ramon Das</i></p> <p>14 Small Farms, Big Ideas: LEGO® Farm and Agricultural Idealism 145<br /><i>Craig Van Pelt</i></p> <p>15 The Reality of LEGO®: Building the Apocalypse 153<br /><i>David Lueth</i></p> <p>16 The American Archipelago: Touring the Nation at Miniland USA 163<br /><i>Samantha J. Boardman</i></p> <p><b>Part V LEGO®, Metaphysics, and Math 173</b></p> <p>17 The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block: LEGO® as an Expression of Dao 175<br /><i>Steve Bein</i></p> <p>18 LEGO®, Impermanence, and Buddhism 185<br /><i>David Kahn</i></p> <p>19 LEGO® and the Building Blocks of Metaphysics 197<br /><i>Stephan Leuenberger</i></p> <p>20 What Can You Build? 207<br /><i>Bob Fischer</i></p> <p>21 Playing with LEGO® and Proving Theorems 217<br /><i>Fenner Tanswell</i></p> <p>Glossary 227<br /><i>Alice Leber-Cook and Roy T. Cook</i></p> <p>Index 233</p>
<p><b> Roy T. Cook</b> is CLA Scholar of the College and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. He is the author of <i>Paradoxes</i> (Polity, 2013) and <i>The Yablo Paradox</i> (2014), the editor of <i>The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction</i> (2007), and co-editor of <i>The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2012) and <i>The Routledge Companion to Comics</i> (2016). No matter how much LEGO he buys, he never seems to have enough headlight bricks. <p><b> Sondra Bacharach</b> is Senior Lecturer in the philosophy department at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She works in philosophy of art and philosophy for children. She is co-editor of <i>Collaborating Now: Art in the Twenty-first Century </i>(2016) and is the former co-editor of the American Society for Aesthetics <i>Newsletter.</i> When she's not doing philosophy, she can be found building Classic Spaceships (Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!) with her kids' big box of LEGO.
<p> How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is 'very'! Today, LEGO has grown from a toy building block with trans-generational appeal to a multimedia phenomenon encompassing television shows and films, corporate training programs, educational robotics programs, fan conventions, clothing and accessories, and even a named professorship at Cambridge University. Written by a group of esteemed philosophers and LEGO fans, <i>LEGO and Philosophy</i> dives headfirst into the many philosophical ideas raised by the world of LEGO, not least of which is exploring what lies at the heart of what makes LEGO so special. It is a building tool that opens up a new world of possibility for the builder. Suddenly the domain of LEGO covers not only what is in our ordinary world, but a world that ends only at the limits of our own imaginations. <p> Through twenty-two fascinating and stimulating chapters the book explores metaphysical, logical, moral, and conceptual issues. It introduces readers to key areas of philosophy through topics such as creativity and play, conformity and autonomy, consumption and culture, authenticity and identity, architecture, mathematics, business and environmental ethics. <p> Perfect for fans and armchair philosophers alike, <i>LEGO and Philosophy</i> invites the reader to come and join the intellectual play of ideas!

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