LEGO and philosophy : constructing reality brick by brick /: constructing reality brick by brick. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Roy T. Cook, Sondra Bacharach.
• Editors: Cook, Roy T, 1972-; Bacharach, Sondra
• Contents: Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: Play Well, Philosophize Well! 1; Sondra Bacharach and Roy T. Cook Part I LEGO® and Creativity 5 1 Constructing Creativity 7; Mary Beth Willard 2 Building Blocks of Thought: LEGO® and the Philosophy of Play 17; Tyler Shores 3 LEGO® Formalism in Architecture 27; Saul Fisher 4 “That Was My Idea!”: LEGO® Ideas and Intellectual Property 39; Michael Gettings Part II LEGO®, Ethics, and Rules 49 5 “You Know the Rules!” What’s Wrong with The Man Upstairs? 51; Jon Robson 6 Searching for “The Special”: The LEGO® Movie and the Value of (LEGO®) Persons 59; Alexander Quanbeck 7 LEGO® and the Social Blocks of Autonomy 69; Eric Chelstrom 8 Building and Dwelling with Heidegger and LEGO® Toys 79; Ellen Miller Part III LEGO® and Identity 89 9 Ninjas, Kobe Bryant, and Yellow Plastic: The LEGO® Minifigure and Race 91; Roy T. Cook 10 Girl, LEGO® Friends is not your Friend! Does LEGO® Construct Gender Stereotypes? 103; Rebecca Gutwald 11 Representation in Plastic and Marketing: The Significance of the LEGO® Women Scientists 113; Rhiannon Grant and Ruth Wainman 12 Real Signature Figures: LEGO® Minifigures and the Human Individual 123; Robert M. Mentyka Part IV LEGO®, Consumption, and Culture 133 13 LEGO® Values: Image and Reality 135; Sondra Bacharach and Ramon Das 14 Small Farms, Big Ideas: LEGO® Farm and Agricultural Idealism 145; Craig Van Pelt 15 The Reality of LEGO®: Building the Apocalypse 153; David Lueth 16 The American Archipelago: Touring the Nation at Miniland USA 163; Samantha J. Boardman Part V LEGO®, Metaphysics, and Math 173 17 The Brick, the Plate, and the Uncarved Block: LEGO® as an Expression of Dao 175; Steve Bein 18 LEGO®, Impermanence, and Buddhism 185; David Kahn 19 LEGO® and the Building Blocks of Metaphysics 197; Stephan Leuenberger 20 What Can You Build? 207; Bob Fischer 21 Playing with LEGO® and Proving Theorems 217; Fenner Tanswell Glossary 227; Alice Leber-Cook and Roy T. Cook Index 233
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 688.72; LEGO toys; LEGO toys -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119193999
• Related ISBNs: 9781119193975
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