Play and inquiry

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2025

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Gadamer, forms of our freedom, play

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In this article, play is taken up as a mood that incites and mediates inquiry. As such, play is said to produce not only, following Gadamer, the “forms of our freedom,” but also the very being of human meaning, giving it both ethical and ontological import.

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Beauclair, A. (2025). Play and Inquiry. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 39(2), 136–157. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.39.2.0136

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https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.39.2.0136

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