Chapter 1 Introduction.- PART I: PLAYSPACE, ETHICS & ENGAGEMENT.- Chapter 2 Towards an Ethics of Homo Ludens.- Chapter 3 SPORT MATTERS: On Art, Social Artifice and the Rules of the Game, or, the Politics of Sport.- Chapter 4 Pre-Texts: Press Play to Teach Anything.- Chapter 5 Work, Play, and Civic Engagement.- Chapter 6 Technoecologies: The Interplay of Space and its Perception.- Chapter 7 Meaningful Inefficiencies: Caring for Civics in an Age of Smart Cities or Reconsidering Civic Engagement in the 21st Century.- PART II: PLAYTHINGS, COMEDY & LAUGHTER.- Chapter 8 Laughter in Greek Lyric Poetry.- Chapter 9 Ludic Music in Ancient Greek and Roman Theater.- Chapter 10 Did Jesus Christ Laugh?.- Chapter 11 Comedy, Physicality, and Ludic Dance Gestures: The Comic in Ballet and Tai Chi?.- Chapter 12 Toys, Childhood and Material Culture in Byzantium.- PART III: LANGUAGE & POETICS OF PLAY.- Chapter 13 How to Catch a Falling Knife: Poetic Play as the Practice of Negative Capability.- Chapter 14 The Ludic Impulse in Post-Postmodern Fiction.- Chapter 15 Games Translators Play in Bilingual French-Canadian Theater.- Chapter 16 Immigraντ Poetics.- PART IV: PLAY(MODES) & PERFORMANCE AS TRANSGRESSION.- Chapter 17 Ludics as Transgression: From Surrealism to the Absurd to Pataphysics.- Chapter 18 2 Sisters, 2 Stories: Breast Cancer, Femininity, and Body Ownership.- Chapter 19 Don't Be Mean and Other Lessons from Children's Plays of the Federal Theatre Project.- Chapter 20 The Republic of Childhood: Friedrich Froebel's Kindergarten and Naturphilosophie.- Chapter 21 Oscillating Between Tag and Hopscotch: Th廩 Angelopoulos' Playful Aesthetics.
