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LEGO and Philosophy

Constructing Reality Brick By Brick
Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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LEGO and Philosophy examines the philosophical implications and ideas associated with LEGO play and culture. The book delves into the creativity, structure, and metaphysics involved in building with LEGO, offering insights into how these principles reflect broader philosophical themes. It provides an engaging exploration of how a popular toy intersects with deep philosophical questions.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring philosophical concepts through creative and playful mediums. It delves into complex philosophical ideas using the universal language of LEGO, encouraging readers to think critically about reality, art, and human nature while having a bit of fun.

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LEGO and Philosophy

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How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO and Philosophy, which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated television shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, an educational robotics program, an award-winning series of video games, hundreds of books, magazines, and comics, a team-building workshop program for businesses, and much, much more.

Delve into the many philosophical ideas raised by LEGO bricks and the global multimedia phenomenon they have created:

  • Explores 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.
  • Engages in lively philosophical discussions about bricks, minifigures, and the LEGO world, appealing to both LEGO fans and armchair philosophers alike.

Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119193975

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Series edited by William Irwin
  • Edited by Sondra Bacharach
  • Edited by Roy T. Cook

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 256

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Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

About the Author

Roy T. Cook 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 Paradoxes (Polity, 2013) and The Yablo Paradox (2014), the editor of The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (2007), and co-editor of The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach (Wiley Blackwell, 2012) and The Routledge Companion to Comics (2016). No matter how much LEGO he buys, he never seems to have enough headlight bricks.

Sondra Bacharach 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 Collaborating Now: Art in the Twenty-first Century (2016) and is the former co-editor of the American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter. When she's not doing philosophy, she can be found building Classic Spaceships (Spaceship, Spaceship, SPACESHIP!) with her kids' big box of LEGO.

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