LEGO and Philosophy.

LEGO and Philosophy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irwin, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.
Series:Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Subjects:
LEGO toys.
LEGO toys
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Table of Contents:
  • Series; Title page; Copyright; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Play Well, Philosophize Well!; Part I LEGO® AND CREATIVITY; 1 Constructing Creativity; Originality and Creativity; Madmen, Oddballs, and Visionaries; Resolving the Paradox; Notes; 2 Building Blocks of Thought: LEGO® and the Philosophy of Play; LEGO as a Thing You Think With; Philosophy as Serious Play; LEGO and Forms of Play; LEGO as a Metaphor for Philosophy; Notes; 3 LEGO® Formalism in Architecture; Three Scenarios; LEGO and Formalism; Contextualism, Functional Beauty, and LEGO; Other LEGO Worlds and the Real World; Notes.
  • 4 "That Was My Idea!": LEGO® Ideas and Intellectual PropertyAvoiding Mistaken Identity; Defending Your Rights; Does Matter Matter?; A Formative Account; A Tale of Two Time Machines?; History Matters!; Notes; Part II LEGO®, ETHICS, AND RULES; 5 "You Know the Rules!" What's Wrong with The Man Upstairs?; "All of This That You See Before You is All Your Father's"; "Let's Take Extra Care to Follow the Instructions"; "You Know the Rules!"; "First Law of the Sea: Never Place Yer Rear End on a Pirate's Face"; "Instructions to Fit In, Have Everybody Like You, and Always Be Happy."
  • "That's a Suggestion!""Would You Like to Make an Appointment, or Shall I Summon the Micromanagers?"; Notes; 6 Searching for "The Special": The LEGO® Movie and the Value of (LEGO®) Persons; "You're Not The Special!": President Business's Theory of Extrinsic Value; Emmet's Vacillating Value; Intrinsic Value and Emmet's Enlightenment; "You Still Can Change Everything": The Implications of Emmet's Belief in Intrinsic Value; Notes; 7 LEGO® and the Social Blocks of Autonomy; What Is Autonomy?; Emmet; Wyldstyle; Becoming The Special, "Everything is Awesome"; Notes.
  • 8 Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and LEGO® ToysEmmet as Existentialist: No More Mr. Conformist; Moods and Play; Engaged Play with Modular Bricks; "It's a New Toy Everyday"; Serious Play as Art: The Saving Power in LEGO-building; Dwelling and Building with LEGO; Notes; Part III LEGO® AND IDENTITY; 9 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic: The LEGO® Minifigure and Race; Where's Lando?; The Building Bricks of Race; Kobe Bryant, Ninjas, and Race; Race in The LEGO Movie; Notes; 10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! Does LEGO® Construct Gender Stereotypes?
  • Girls' Best Friends or Worst Toy of the Year?LEGO Friends' Friendly Sexism; Is LEGO Playing with Stereotypes?; Let the Friends Go to Space! How to Build a More Diverse World with Bricks; Notes; 11 Representation in Plastic and Marketing: The Significance of the LEGO® Women Scientists; "Explore the World and Beyond!"; Girls' Toys, Boys' Toys: The Gendered Bias; One Small Step for LEGO, One Giant Leap for Women in Science?; Challenging the Representation of Women in Science: One Brick at a Time; Notes; 12 Real Signature Figures: LEGO® Minifigures and the Human Individual; Laying the Foundation.

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