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The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living
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The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living

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‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent

We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure. But this is only half of the truth. The Play Ethic explores the real meaning of play and shows how a more playful society would revolutionize and liberate our daily lives.

Using wide and varied sources – from the Enlightenment to Eminem, Socrates to Chaos theory, Kierkegaard to Karaoke – The Play Ethic shows how play is fundamental to both society and to the individual, and how the work ethic that has dominated the last three centuries is ill-equipped to deal with the modern world. With verve, wit and intelligence, Pat Kane takes us on a tour of the playful world arguing that without it business, the arts, politics, education, even our family and spiritual lives are fundamentally impoverished.

The Play Ethic seeks to change the way you look at your daily life, how you interact with others, how you view the world. It is a guidebook to new, exciting – and unsettling – times. Shocking, controversial, yet magnificently argued, The Play Ethic is a book no one who works, or has ever worked, can afford to be without.

‘Kane's Manifesto for a Different Way of Living is a brave attempt to inject a little playfulness . . . into the dull grind of the working stiff’ Iain Finlayson, The Times

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPan Macmillan
Release dateAug 19, 2011
ISBN9781447207115
The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living
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Pat Kane

Pat Kane is a social commentator, journalist and broadcaster. He was a founding and associate editor of the Sunday Herald in Glasgow and is one half of the Scottish pop duo, Hue and Cry. He is the author of The Play Ethic and now runs seminars, talks and a website reaching out to people living the Play Ethic.

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    This is a frisky, word-happy, dense volume which postulates a "play ethic" instead of a work ethic. For Kane, the internet and the computer - with their ability to divide, blend, connect and disconnect in a variety of ways - light the path to this new way of being in the world.

    It's sensitive, fun, occasionally profound, but often a bit too manic. The author relentlessly keeps his ideas spinning, and references everything he possibly can. Perhaps it shouldn't be read in a linear way, as I read it, but just browsed and dipped and sampled frequently.

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