LEGO and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick By Brick

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. Dives into the many philosophical ideas raised by LEGO bricks and the global multimedia phenomenon they have created Tackles metaphysical, logical, moral, and conceptual issues in a series of fascinating and stimulating essays 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 Written by a global group of esteemed philosophers and LEGO fans A lively philosophical discussion of bricks, minifigures, and the LEGO world that will appeal to LEGO fans and armchair philosophers alike INDICE: Notes on Contributors ix .Introduction: Play Well, Philosophize Well! 1Sondra Bacharach and Roy T. Cook .Part I LEGO® and Creativity 5 .1 Constructing Creativity 7Mary Beth Willard .2 Building Blocks of Thought: LEGO® and the Philosophy of Play 17Tyler Shores .3 LEGO® Formalism in Architecture 27Saul Fisher .4 That Was My Idea! : LEGO® Ideas and Intellectual Property 39Michael Gettings .Part II LEGO®, Ethics, and Rules 49 .5 You Know the Rules! What s Wrong with The Man Upstairs? 51Jon Robson .6 Searching for The Special : The LEGO® Movie and the Value of (LEGO®) Persons 59Alexander Quanbeck .7 LEGO® and the Social Blocks of Autonomy 69Eric Chelstrom .8 Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and LEGO® Toys 79Ellen Miller .Part III LEGO® and Identity 89 .9 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic: The LEGO® Minifigure and Race 91Roy T. Cook .10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! Does LEGO® Construct Gender Stereotypes? 103Rebecca Gutwald .11 Representation in Plastic and Marketing: The Significance of the LEGO® Women Scientists 113Rhiannon Grant and Ruth Wainman .12 Real Signature Figures: LEGO® Minifigures and the Human Individual 123Robert M. Mentyka .Part IV LEGO®, Consumption, and Culture 133 .13 LEGO® Values: Image and Reality 135Sondra Bacharach and Ramon Das .14 Small Farms, Big Ideas: LEGO® Farm and Agricultural Idealism 145Craig Van Pelt .15 The Reality of LEGO®: Building the Apocalypse 153David Lueth .16 The American Archipelago: Touring the Nation at Miniland USA 163Samantha J. Boardman .Part V LEGO®, Metaphysics, and Math 173 .17 The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block: LEGO® as an Expression of Dao 175Steve Bein .18 LEGO®, Impermanence, and Buddhism 185David Kahn .19 LEGO® and the Building Blocks of Metaphysics 197Stephan Leuenberger .20 What Can You Build? 207Bob Fischer .21 Playing with LEGO® and Proving Theorems 217Fenner Tanswell .Glossary 227Alice Leber–Cook and Roy T. Cook .Index 233

• ISBN: 978-1-119-19397-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 15/08/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés