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Puppets’ Uprising: Passive-Active Ethics Within the Trap of Play

  • Annabelle Dufourcq (author)
Chapter of: Purple Brains: Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy

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TitlePuppets’ Uprising: Passive-Active Ethics Within the Trap of Play
ContributorAnnabelle Dufourcq (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373_CH19
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2024-05-16
Long abstractAnnabelle Dufourcq, in her article, “Puppets’ Uprising: Passive Active Ethics Within the Trap of Play,” argues that, given the all-pervading structure of play, it is impossible to break away from play, and yet, trying to put a halt to play is actually key to morals. This is also a major political issue at a time when play has become a patent and constraining social structure: adaptability, malleability, and distance are encouraged in the covertly highly oppressive society of “coolness” (Baudrillard). How can we make room for ethics in the framework of an ontology of play? Dufourcq discusses Sartre’s idea that love for (or resignation to) play is the scantiest and most ineffective response of the oppressed to oppression. In contrast, Merleau-Ponty presents irony, distance, and vulnerability as virtues and, under certain conditions, the only possible source of genuinely effective and meaningful actions.
Keywords
  • feminist theory
  • feminist philosophy
  • gender theory
  • race
  • racism
  • sexism and misogyny
  • oppresssion and resistance
  • the environment
  • climate change
  • neuropsychology
  • brain theories
Contributors

Annabelle Dufourcq

(author)
Radboud University Nijmegen

Annabelle Dufourcq is Associate Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophical Anthropology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, and Socrates Special Professor of Philosophy at Wageningen University, also in the Netherlands. She studies the relation between the real and the imaginary in contemporary continental philosophy, and has a special interest in the phenomenological approach. She is currently investigating the fundamental relation between human imagination and the imaginative capacities of non-human animals in connection with the project of non-anthropocentric humanities. Her books include La dimension imaginaire du réel dans la philosophie de Husserl (Springer 2010), Merleau-Ponty: une ontologie de l’imaginaire (Springer 2012), and The Imaginary of Animals (Routledge 2021).